University of Richmond Magazine Summer 1983

UNTVFRSJTY RICHifflOND MAGAZINE Summer,1983 Vol.46 No.3

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\I We invite your comments on articles published in the University of Richmond Magazine or on any facet of the University.

Send your letters to ÂŁditor, University of Richmond Magazine, University of Richmond, Virginia 23173. Letters are subject to editing, /ml wc1I make s11rr yuur message comes through

Interested in Writing Careers of Alumni When I read in The Philadelphia Inquirer of the death in March, 1983, of Charles Yates McDaniel R'27, who had a long tenure with the Associated Press, I suddenly realized that during my four ye.irs at Richmond I knew several who went on lo distinguished careers in journalism: Judson Evans of the AP; Cabe!! Phillips, a longtime Washington reporter for the New York Times; Charier "Fritz" Heslep, first with "Masonic Age" and la ter a first-rate reporter for radio networks; George Reynolds Freedly, who was drama critic for the Wall Street Journal, and Dave Herman, reporter for the Richmond newspapers.

In the future, why not treat the achievements of Richmond alumni in the field of writing- journalism, literature or whatever?

Keep up the good work!

That's SATC, Not ROTC The Spring issue of the UR Magazine was excellent, particularly the account of General Hospital II. J remember that period, and the campus was my playground beginning in September 1917.

I would, however, like to make a correction: On Page 11 is a statement that the college had an ROTC program. !n fact, the program was an SATC program- Student Army Training Corps. Dr. Reuben Alley's "History of the University of Richmond" has a statement in the last paragraph concerning the unsuccessful attempt to have the college designated as a reserve officers training camp.

John Randolph Tucker, a law professor, for whom a Henrico County school is named, was the SATC commanding officer. The students drilled with wooden rifles, one of which I had for many years. The flagpole was on the green just outside of Ryland Hall between the paths going to Jeter and the Refectory. Every evening there would be retreat and the lowering of the tlag Charles H. Ryland R'36, LLB'39, H'71 Warsaw, Va.

Robert W. Neathery R'27 Narberth, Pa.

Yet Another Role for Dr. Walker In the Spring issue of the Uniucrsity of Richmond Magazine you listed most of the fine activities that Dr. William E. Walker is involved in. However, yo u overlooked one very important position- that of faculty advisor to Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Dr. Walker's guidance and support has made a dif• ference in many of our men's lives. Without a doub t, Dr Walker's role as faculty advisor and friend is noteworthy.

Why Not Orthodox Ch ristianity as UR Policy?

I just received the Spring issue of the Magazine and enjoyed it very much, especially the ar ticle on the University's part in World War I I have always felt to the University and was dee ply appreciative when was elected to the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1981.

Best of luck to you as the new editor, and I am sure the excellent character of the magazine will continue.

Your article " Et hical Schizophrenia" [Spring issue] was superb. I'm glad you had the inspiration lo write this and I'm glad that it was published in the magazine.

What disturbs me is the editorial comment printed at the head of the article. It reads: "The opinions expressed in VI EWPOINT are the personal opinions of the writer and in no way indicate official policy or positions held by the UR Magazine or the University of Richmond " We!!, my comment to that statement is that what you have expressed should be the official policy of the magazine and the University. There w,1s a time, not too many years ago, when the orthodox Christian perspective would have been declared by the University. Although the Universi ty of Richmond has never been what you could call a Christ-centered institution of higher learning, the policies used to be heavily influenced by its church-relatedness. That no longer seems to be the case.

Moral truth comes only from Cod and the standard is God himself, revealed in the person of I lis Son, Jesus Christ. Thank you for stating this. May the Lord bless you richly

Lester E. Tharpe, R'27 Berkeley Springs, W.Va.

David Ritter R'61 Virginia Beach . Va.

James E. Derderian R'85 Pittsburgh, Pa.

Enjoyed Spring Issue

Letters 2 Social Fraternities al UR A perspective. By Dr. Wi!liam H. Leftwich, Vice President of Student Affairs 6 Names and Places Li nks with the past Ann E. Ladd, W'84

a glimpse of the fu ture. By

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Discoveries and Expectations

By F. Sheldon Wett,1ck, Dean of thl' Faculty of Arts & Sciences

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Viewpoint: Moral Monopoly

By Dr. Robert 5. Alley, Chairma n of Area Studies and Professor of Huma nities, and Dr. Irby B Brown, Professor of English

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Poem: Reflections After the Estate Sale

By Michael S,1nta Barbar,1, R'83

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Faculty Focus: " We Called Him 'Chief' A profile of Dr. Robert F. Smart. By Leanne Wade Beorn, Instructor of English

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Classnotes UR Campus Memory Contest

Credits Whit Cox, front cover, pages 3- 5; Forrest Hughes, pagl's 8, 18; Virginia Baptist I listorical Societv, pagl's 8-9; Eric Dobbs, pages 9, 11, 16, 19; Joel Archibald, page 15; Lee Bra ue r, page 19; Melissa Grimes-Guy, page 20; Richmond Newspapers staff p hotos, pages 21, 23, 2.t; Brett LaCue, inside back cover Editor Evelyn Fouraker Contributing Editor Alison Gri ffin Editorial Assistant Forrest Hughes Classnotes Editor Jeffrey L. Franklin, R'77 Class notes Editor Ja ne S. Thorpe, \V'58 Contributors William 1-i . Leftwich, Ann E. Ladd, F. Sheldon Wettack Robert S. Allev lrbv B. Brown Michael Santa Barbara, Leanne Wade BeOrn, B,1rrv Barnum, Arthur Todr.is, Lisa Freeman • Art Direction Bea tley & Gravitt-Brett LaCue UR Magazine Advisory Committee Robert Beck, R'70, Public Affairs Administrator, Virginia Electric and Power Comp.iny; Ste phen P. Nash, UR Assistant Professor of Journa lism; Welford D. Taylor, R'59, G'6 1, UR Professor o f English; John Taylor, VP of Public Affairs, A. I-! . Robins Comp.iny; Mary Crace Taylor, W'• 2, freelance journa li st, retired.

The U11i1-ersity of Ricl1111011d Magazine, of which this is Volume 46, Num ber 3, is published quarterly for the alumni.'ae and friends of the University o f Richmond. Postmaster: send ,1ddress changes to Un iversity of Richmond, Virgini.i 23 173. ,t 1983 University of Ric hmond

Dear Alumni/ae, I am pleased to announce the appointment of our new Vice President and Provost, Dr. Zeddie P. Bowen, currently the dean of the Arts and Sciences Faculty at The College of William and Mary.

We began our search for a Vice President and Provost last May when Dr. Melvin L. Vulgamore announced his plans to take the presidency of Albion College. Our nation-wide call for nominations and applications was answered by nearly 250 candidates who were interested and excited about the University because of its ever-widening reputation for quality and strength. These candidates became the focus of the faculty, students, st.iff .ind tru;;tecs serving on the Screening .ind Se,1rch Committees. Their diligent efforts during the summer months culminated with the appointment of Dr. Bowen You will want to read more about him on page 18 of this issue, and should look forward to reading about his views on education in subsequent issues of the University of Ricl1111011d

Magazine.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Bowen and his family lo the University. We believe that he is the right aciidemic leader to lead us forward to new levels of excellence as we continue to build on the strength and vitality that exists at your Alma Mater, Best wishes.

Cordially yours,

E. Bruce Heilman

SOCIAL FRATERNITIES ATUR Kappa Alpha

Sigma Phi Epsilon

Kappa Sigma

Theta Chi

Lambda Chi Alpha

Phi Beta Sigma

A PERSPECTIVE

by Will ia m H. Leftwich In his book, Historl/ of the U11iversity of Riclmwnd, DI°. Reuben E. Alley comments on the beginnings of fraternity life at the University: Richmond students, like those of other colleges and universities in the United States during the last half of the 19th century, shared in the rapid growth of social fraternities. Faculty and trustees gave encouragement by a friendly attitude when a group of students sought permission to organize a chapter of Kappa Alpha Order in 1870. !'hi Kappa Sigma received a like welcome lo the campus in 1873; Phi Delta Theta in 1875; Sigma Chi in 1880; Sigma Alpha Epsilon in 1884; Phi Gamma Delta in 1890; Pi Kappa Alpha in 1891; Kappa Sigma in 1898, and Sigma Phi Epsilon in 1901.

By the turn of the century, then, there were nine Greek letter social fraternities that had become a part of the life of the University, a number not greatly different from the twelve fraternities that exist today. Dr. Alley comments further, "Some of the chapters had a short life at Richmond College, others ceased to function for a while before restoration, while others continued from the date of organization." It is interesting to note, however, that the nine chapters mentioned above still exist today as viable, healthy organizations.

In the ensuing 80 years or so since the early beginnings, a few chapters came into being only to disappear, and there have been three additions that still exist, Lambda Chi Alpha, Theta Chi, and as recently as the spring of 1982, Phi Beta Sigma. For the most part, however, one is struck by the remarkable stability of these organizations throughout the University's history. I would venture to say that in a dynamic institution such as the University which has undergone many changes, few other organizations can match the long tradition and historv of our Greek letter social fraten;ities.

There have been a number of milestones along the way which

are worthy of note. It was not until June, 1912 that special regulations for the guidance of social fraternities were adopted by a committee of the faculty. Apparently prior to that time there were few restrictions, although as Dr. Alley notes in his book, "Rules against dancing on the campus were rigidly enforced."

The rules adopted in 1912 also made provision for the lnterfraternity Council, composed of a representative from each fraterni ty together with three members of the faculty.

In the early 1920s the attention of the trustees with respect to fraternities was focused on devising plans or means whereby fraternities might finance and build chapter houses. For the preceding decade or so fraternities met in residence hall rooms or rented homes adjacent to the campus. Phi Kappa Sigma actually constructed a chapter house on campus by the end of that decade, Dr. Alley reports, and "five

Service projects are important in fraternity life

other fraternities had contracted for lots" but others did not, citing financial reasons. Toward the end of the next decade it was reported that the small system of fraternity houses was not operating on a sound fiscal basis. Yet, no decisive administrative action was taken with regard to chapter houses or alternative plans until the close of World War II, when

Participation in sports fosters brotherhood

interest surfaced in a lodge-type fraternity system. Today, with eleven chapter lodges on campus, the University of Richmond provides a Greek system that is probably unique in higher education. The fraternity lodges, while different in exterior appearance, all provide large common meeting rooms, kitchen and restroom facilities, and housing for up to three brothers each. This alternative to a house system is obviously far more economical to build and maintain, although some day-to-day social interaction among the brothers of a fraternity is sacrificed.

In terms of membership, the fraternity system at the University is very healthy indeed. The number of men belonging lo social fraternities declined nationally in the early 1970s-and at the University as well- but this decline has since reversed, so that today we have as fraternity members the highest percentage of undergraduate males in the University's history-45 percent.

Each year we receive two to three inquiries from nationa l organizations interested in adding new chapters to our campus. However, with rare exceptions, we have preferred to limit the number of chapters in order that the membership in existing ones not be diluted unduly.

No discussion of fraternity life at the University would be complete without reference to sororities. In the spring of 1981 a number of women became inter-

ested in bringing sororities to the University but, after months of discussion and debate followed by several referenda, the matter was defeated by the women students. As a part of the last referendum, it was agreed that no further attempt would be made to establish sororities for at least two years. This is not to say that sororities have never been a part of the University's history. A check into the records reveals that in March, 1905, the faculty agreed to "the formation of a fraternity or of fraternities among the women students of Richmond College . ." Subsequently, the faculty "granted permission for the organization of a chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority." As to the future, only time will tell whether there will be sufficient interest in such organizations.

Kappa Sigma brothers (1918 )

Kappa Alpha brothers in the casual dress of Ille

Any attempt to assess the value of fraternities on a college campus and, for that matter, sororities as well, is a rather difficult task. A relatively small number of people seem neutral about fraternities, but for most of us the mere mention of the word "fraternity" or the identifying Greek letters evoke, more often than not, rather strong positive or negative feelings.

In my view, fraternities have been and will remain very positive forces on college campuses by fulfilling an extremely important need. At the risk of appearing simplistic, the bottom line is that fraternities in large measure can satisfy the "need to belong," a need which stands just above the physiological and safety needs in psychologist Abraham Maslow's "hierarchy of needs."

For many freshmen, away from home for the first time, college presents a somewhat hostile environment fraught with uncertainties. The possibility of affiliating with a group of peers who can express appreciation and understanding in addition to showing one "the ropes" is an attractive invitation.

Sometimes neighbors who live near the University campus do not like fraternities very much. Sometimes University faculties and administrators do not like fraternities very much even though many of them are fraternity members.

Fraternity chapters can represent the very best and the very worst of behavior, sometimes within the same day. There is the chapter which became aware of the plight of an elderly couple whose property adjoined Fraternity Row. Without being asked, the brothers went to the home aftcr learning that the husband had suffered a heart attack, and proceeded to do a number of chores around the house.

There is also the chapter that became irritated because a neighbor had complained, and the brothers proceeded to lob into the

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neighbor's backyard the empty beer bottles and cans and assorted other remnants from a social event.

There's also the fraternity which plays Santa Claus for the residents al the Richmond Home for Boys. There is also the history of fraternity-initiated food riots in the dining halls. And there are the numerous social service projects ranging from fund-raising events for Muscular Dystrophy and the Heart Association to working with small children, Super Kids' Day, and helping senior citizens.

Formal attire is the order of the day for Phi Kappa Sixma (189i)

Pi Kappa Alphans as shown i11 1942 Web Overwhelmingly, the activities and actions of our chapters are positive and are marred only by an occasional misdeed or misdirection.

On balance, then, our fraternities are a positive influence, and as an institution we will continue to work in a positive way with them while providing an encouraging but steadying influence.

Dr. William H. Leftwich, R '.52, has been the University's Vice President for Stu dent Affairs since 1973. 1-fe came to work at tire Uni1•crsil1/ in 1961 and has held the /JOSilions of('1airma11 of tire psyc/10/0gy department, din'Ctor of the Center for Psyc/10/ogical St'n•ices, associatt' dean, and dirtctor of Student Sen 1ices and Actii•ities.

PROS AND CONS Members of the University community and its neighbors were asked to respond to the following question: "Is the fraternity system of value in University of Richmond life?"

"Yes, it's certainly of value. can't see any other type of activity that lets you get lo know people pretty well .

I don't know what I would have done without it. We've been number one in scholastics of all Greeks; it makes you uphold your grades."-Jim Nagle, R'85, Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity "The fra terni ty system has positive and negative values Many students, especially freshmen and sophomores, need the structured social life and security in making a totally new circle of friends Some fraternities seem determined to undermine academics and make unreason_able demands on pledges during their freshman year and are reluctant to conform to the rules of the lntcrfraternity Council regarding noise, making noise far beyond the time agreed for a party to end "- Dr. James A. Sartain, professor of sociology and a University neighlJOr. "They are most definitely of value. There are not many social alternatives. I personally don't need them and I was very happy when sororities were voted down. Having 11 fraternities on campus poses no problem to me."-Chris Reid, W'83, journalism major

"Fraternities could be of value in University of Richmond life if fraternities did not consider themselves compartmentalized from academic life. They don't believe that it is possible lo have a good lime and maintain intellectual integrity."-Dr. J. Martin Ryle, professor of history and a University neighbor "The real effect of fraternities is primarily social. Whether they realize it or not, their activities affect social atmosphere. They have a near monopoly; 99.9 percent of the weekend activities must be coordinated with fraternities Any campus leader who tries to make an impact on student lifestyles wou ld be foolish not to seek fraternity support."- Kirk Schroder, SBA '84 "As a neighbor, I can say they have both positives and negatives. I have not taken the time to get acquainted with them, but the times we've had a few up for dinner they've seemed like nice people, nice boys. The negative side is that they arc noisy sometimes and forget Un iversity regulations with respect to noise and parties."-The Hon. E. Ball ard Baker, L '47 and a University neigh/lo,

Bennet Puryear and Puryear Hall

by Ann E. Ladd

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& Places Links with the Past ...

A Glimpse of the Future

Names of buildings and landmarks on the University campus are our links with the school's past as well as reminders of its current supporters. Studying the origins of those names teaches us about the school's history and gives us a glimpse of its future.

Here is a selected sampling of some of those buildings and landmarks.

Thomas Hall, the first men's dormitory, was named for James Thomas Jr., a leading Richmond tobacconist. Thomas is thought to have been the first mH\ionaire in Richmond, although he lost almost $1 million in the Civil War. His gifts to the school were estiJeter Ha/1 and Jeremiah B. feter

mated at $50,000 to $60,000. He never attended college, but ii was said that next to his family and his church he loved Richmond College the best. He was president of the board of trustees from 1872-73 and from 1880-82. When he died, the entire student body of Richmond College escorted his remains to the funeral at First Baptist Church.

Another tobacco millionaire, Thomas C. Williams Sr., is responsible for the survival of the T. C. Williams School of Law during its early struggling years.

Born in 1831, Williams became one of the wealthiest men of his era in Richmond. He headed the tobacco company bearing his name, and served as a director of the National Bank of Virginia.

During the Civil War, when his Richmond factories were used as Confederate arsenals or hospitals, the Thomas C. Williams Tobacco Company moved to Danville, then back to Richmond after the war.

After Williams' death his family gave 525,000 to found the "T. C. Williams Professorship of Law" at the financially crippled Law School of Richmond. This grant, along with other donations, helped get the school back on its feet.

The University's baseball diamond, Pitt Field, was dedicated Oct. 3, 1981 and was named for Malcolm U. "Mac" Pitt. Pitt be-

Thomas Hall and James Thomas Jr.

gan his association with the University as a student at Richmond Academy, a preparatory school affiliated with the University. In 1915 he entered Richmond College and graduated in 1918. He returned to UR in 1928 as assistant football coach and later also coached basketba ll and baseball.

His baseball teams won 426, lost 257 and tied five games over 37 seasons. Pitt served as athletic director from 1941 until his retirement in 1967, although he continued coaching baseball until 1970.

He lives on Park Avenue in Richmond.

Puryear /-la!!, once the chemistry building and now used for mathematics, foreign languages and sociology, was named in honor of Bennet Puryear, a member of the Richmond College faculty for 37 years. He was a professor of chemistry, cha irman of the facu lty from 1869-85 and from 1889-95, and substituted in the mathematics, Latin and Greek departments. lndeed, his reputa tion had him able to teach any subject, even with short notice.

Puryear was a unique chemistry professor in that he performed all laboratory experiments himself. His students were never required to do any lab work. A specialist in applying chemistry to agriculture, he reportedly wanted to be known as the "man who

made two blades of grass grow where one used to grow ."

Jeter /-la!!, the second men's dorm, was named for Je remiah Bell Jeter, an influential Richmond Baptist pastor. Jeter was known for his strong views on marriage, and liked to quote this verse: A good wife is a treasure To everyone who finds her: And lte shall know true pleasureProvided that he minds her He was married four times.

Never educated past high school, Jeter attended the 1830 meeting that precipitated the creation of the Virginia Baptist Seminary, forerunner of Richmond College. From 1868-72 and from 1873-80 he served as president of the Board of Trustees of Richmond Col lege.

Also wi th Baptist ties, Maryland /-la/I was named for the Baptists of Maryland. They originally contributed $58,000 towards construction of a dormitory, but in the early 1930s agreed to let it be used for a biology laboratory.

Maryland Hall today is used for adm inistrative offices.

Frederic William Boatwright, whose name has been given to Boatwright Drive and Boatwright Memorial Library, at the time of his death in 1951 held the record for the second longest tenure of

any American college president.

Dr. Boatwright was involved \vith Richmond College and the University for 68 years: as student, as professor, as president (from 1894-1946), and as chancellor. The Richmond College campus covered 13 acres, had 183 students, and assets totalling $500,000 when he became president at the age of 27. When he retired, the Universi ty had 300 acres, over 4,000 students, $7 million in as-

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sets :~:t~~~\;t~,iif~~:1~i"service was held on the University campus in the Cmmo11 Memorial Chapel. The chapel was given in 1927 in memory of Henry Mansfield Cannon, a leading Rich-

mond industrialist, as an unsolicited gift from his wife. President Boatwright asked Mrs. Cannon her reason for donating the money. "I had been thinking for years about erecting somewhere in Richmond a permanent memorial to my husband," Mrs. Cannon replied. "He had left me his fortune, which had been made in Richmond, and I wished to use some of it to honor his memory. I finally decided for myself that the University of Richmond would be here as long as the city itself and that I should place my memorial in the University campus, if you would accept it and care for it."

The Jenkins Greek Theater was built in 1929 as suggested by students and faculty who expressed a need for an "outdoor theater."

Plans for its construction were

presented to Luther H. Jenkins, who agreed to fund it on the condition that it could be used by any approved group in Richmond. It was dedicated with a presentation of "Electra" by Euripides.

The Modlin Fine Arts B11i/di11R \Vas named for George M. Modlin, president of the University from 1946-71 and its chancellor since 1971. It cost approximately $1,440,000 and was dedicated in 1969. On "Modlin Day"-May 15, 1970-a portrait of Dr. Modlin was unveiled Keller Hall, the former Westhampton College Activities Building, was named for May Lansfield Keller, the first dean of Westhampton and the first woman dean in Virginia. As dean (from 1914-1946), Dean Keller insisted on equal educational stan, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ <lards and opportunities for women and men.

Keller Hall houses the Crenshaw Swi111111i11g Pool, named for the first director of physical education at Westhampton College, Fannie Craves Crenshaw. She was elected vice president of the U.S. Field Hockey Association, was a national field hockey umpire, and in 1954 served on the national selection committee for the U.S. field hockey team. She lives at Westminster-Canterbury in Richmond. The Westhampton College Alumnae Association raised $175,000 of the $353,883 needed to complete the pool in 1968.

Westhampton alumnae have donated other memorials. The Malcolm U "Mac" Pitt and Pitt Field

Class of '23 gave the $300 needed to build the archway at the entrance to the col lege, while the classes of '24, '25 and '26 contributed to build a "wa iting station," now used as a bus stop, at the main entrance to the University.

Gray Court, the fourth of five women's dormi tories, was built in 1970 as a memorial to Agnes Taylor Cray, W'23, by her husband, the late State Sen. Carland Cray, R'21.

Roger Millhiser Gy11111asi11111 was the gift of Clarence Millhiser and his wife, who donated $65,000 for a gymnasium in mem ory of their son, a former Richmond College studen t who was killed in World War I. M rs. Millhiser later increased the donation to $100,000. Dedicated in 1922, Millhiser Cym is now connected to the Robins Center Wood Hall, the third men's dormitory, was built as a memorial to Bettie Davis Wood, widow of a Dr. Wood, a Richmond dentist and a Richmond College alumnus. Of its 5285,453 cost, approximately $100,000 came from the First Baptist Church Endowment Fund. Wood Hall, Robins Hall and Dennis Hall were erected between 1955 and 1963.

Freeman Hall, erected in 1966; Moore Hall, 1968, and Marsh Hall, 1970, were named in honor of these chairmen of the Board of Trustees: Douglas Southall Freema n, T. Justin Moore, and Robert T. Marsh.

Members of the E. Claiborne Robins fam ily, the University's greatest living benefactors, have had a large number of campus

build ings named in their honor.

Tile Robins Center, the magn ificent athletic facility, was completed in 1972; Lora Robi11s Court, dedicated in 1980, was the gift of Mrs. E. Claiborne Robins and is named for her; and ffob/11s Hall, a dormitory containing an infirmary, is dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor Robins, the mother of E. Claiborne Robins. In 1982, the University's School of Business Administration became The E. Clai borne Robins School of Business.

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DISCOVERIES t EXPECTATIONS

by F. Sheld on We ttack

My first yeilf at the University

has been filled with many new discoveries and expectations.

First, l am impressed with the diversity of the undergraduate curriculum in the Arts and Sciences. Because of UR's broad proficiency and distribution requirements, several of our departments are larger than is typical at schools of this size. As a result, they offer an unusually wide selection of upper-level course

work. The History and English Departments are prime examples.

On the other hand, this same factor (distribution and proficiency requirements) has led to a

greater dependence on part-time instructors than I feel is dcsirnble.

This was particularly true during my first year due to last fall's unusually large freshman class. I trust that the use of part-time faculty can be moderated in the future.

Several curricular areas in the Arts and Sciences are expanding rapidly, viz., journalism, criminal justice and computer science. The journalism program now has 46 majors. New computer terminals for typesetting will provide our journalism students with state-ofthe-art equipment to use starting next fall. The criminal justice program is a new Area Studies major and has attracted 16 m<1jors after only one year of operation.

We arc also expanding our offerings in computer science to IO

meet the burgeoning student demand. During 1983-84, several advanced courses will be taught for th e first time, to complement the basic courses . Art Charlesworth , associate professor of mathematical sciences, will return after a year of graduate work in computer science at U.Va. In add ition, we have appointed two new full -time faculty in math and one of these, Dr. John Hubbard, \Vill be teaching computer science essentially full time. The other, Dr. James Fife, wil l teach primarily mathematics with an occasional assign ment in the introductory computer science courses. These faculty, along with several continuing members of the department who have, through selfstudy, acquired the necessary background to teach the three basic courses in computer science, provide us with the expertise to move ahead in this area quite nicely .

It is worth noting that these curricular expansions in non-traditional liberal Mts areas are being accomplished within the context of the solid liberal arts education which is characteristic of UR. 1 feel strongly that a first-rate journalist, computer scientist or other professional is best educated in the liberal arts tradition.

I look forward to several 11e\v developments in the fine arts in the near future. For example, with the recent addition of several new faculty members in the Music Departmen t, and the establishment of a number of music merit sch olarships, I am extremely optimistic about the future of music at UR. I've been app roach ed about the possibility of our con cert band undertaking more exten sive tours, a proposal

reflecting the new enthusiasm and vitality present in the department.

In Art, Dr. Charles Johnson, departmental chairman, has recently completed a study of art departments at institutions similar to UR. We hope his report wil l serve as a springboard for new developments in the University's art program.

Our thespians are embarking on <1 new and unusual venture this summer- performing in New York. Shaw's D011 Juan in Hell is to be performed for one week at a small showcase theatre, The Raft, on Theatre Row. If the experience this year is positive, we hope to repeat the effort.

One of my concerns is that our students, in general, do not take advantage of the performing arts events available to them at the University . This situation is compounded by the fact that our distribution requirements do not include an experience in the arts for all students. Thus, these new developments in the arts are of particular interest to me. I hope they will create more awareness among our students of the cultural and aesthetic experiences available to them. I would like to see cultural events on campus better attended by students than by persons from the community, rather than the opposite as is now true.

In this same spirit, I look forward to the implementation next year of our National Endowment for the Hum<1nities Visiting Professorship. This endowed professorship is being made possible through a challenge grant from NEH and matching contributions from friends of the University.

The endowment will allow us to bring to campus each year an em-

inent teachcr-schoh:ir in the humanities, to stimulate students and faculty in and beyond the classroom.

Overall, I'm very pleased with the quality of our faculty.

They are interested in their students and in the teaching enterprise, and many are active scholars in their fields who seek to give our undergraduates more than routine exposure to those fields. I am committed to the notion that the heart and soul of an educational institution is its faculty, and 1 intend to spend much time and energy in the areas of faculty appointments and faculty development. Each new appointment has the potential to help determine the direction of the University, as does each incidence of faculty growth and development.

To ensure the strongest possible quality in our faculty, I must work lo develop the resources they need to teach well and pursue scholarly and professional interests to the fullest extent possible. Many of these resources wil l become available as the Comerstones for the Future c;impaign is completed. This campaign gives the academic division of the University a great deal to be excited about, particularly in comparison to most libera l arts institutions. I, for one, am completely optimistic about our future and very enthusiastic about being a part of this University.

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dicl.ft offici1.l policy or FXJ,itio/15 htld by llr.r UR Magu::in~ or tht U11iver,ity of Riclwwnd

by Robert S. Alley and Irby B. Brown Reprinted, with editorial changes, from EMMY Magazine, Winier, 1981

Robert M. Liebert, professor of

psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, addressing 250 religious leaders

attending a 1980 symposium on the electronic church- sponsored jointly by the United States Cath-

.... THE DANGER JS THAT SOME CREATIVE GE/NUS WILL DEVEL· OP THE PROGRAM THAT JS SO 'SUCCESSFUL ' BY THE STAN· DAROS OF THE COMMERCIAL USERS OF THE MEDIA THAT THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSES OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WILL BE IGNORED OR DENIED. "

olic Conference and the National Council of Churches-remarked:

"Make no mistake about it: nothing less than the definition of Christianity is at stake in this holy war.''

At least one of the participants in that symposium, Everett Parker of the United Church of Christ, had voiced a \Varning on this subject 25 years ago . He wrote in 1955: "The most critical and sensitive spot in the ethics of mass communications, we believe, is on the use of these media for the manipulation of people

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For the most part, the commercial networks have consciously sought to avoid-largely from self-interest, we imagine-such manipulation of audiences in their drama and comedy. In the 1960s, pressure from the FCC, advertisers and vocal vievvers resulted in a certain blandness in prime time and an actual decrease in activism and advocacy.

Most network executives appear to have been mild moderates lacking missionary zeal or nationalistic messianism. America, of course, was passing, in its multicultures, into serious confrontations over issues of social justice, racism, human rights and war.

Thus the '70s brought a considerable increase in "issue-oriented" programming. TV producers such as Norman Lear, William Link, Richard Levinson, Earl Hamner, Grant Tinker and Paul Witt addressed specific social concerns, but even in their advocacy they have been expansive, inclusive, carefully avoid ing assertions that all citizens must agree with thei r conclusions. They encouraged in-

struction, not indoctrination; inquiry, not ideology .

If indeed commercial television has had any consistent "message" since 1948, it has been one of tradition and the support of establishment figures . And any mild criticism of, for example, the institution of big business that may on occasion have been offered in an evening's entertainmen t has been more than offset by commercials such as Bob Hope promoting the oil interests of Texaco or Frank Sinatra advocating the virtues of Chrysler products .

It is significan t that even as TV has supported genera l traditional values in such institutions as the family, it has simultaneously avoided dogmatic adherence to a single code of conduct designed to secure those institutions. These facts, coupled with the current sta te of other media in America, make the recent assaul ts on NBC

by Mr. Donald \Vildmon appear particularly ridiculous.

Obviously, wherever there is opinion that is subjectivity. The evidence, however, is strong to support the proposition that the creative TV producers have grounded social comment in commonly accepted secular history, with emphasis upon expansive constitutional principles. In this environment church and synagogue- liberal, moderate, conservative-have been left to explore television use on their own.

Since the early 1950s, along with local religious services each week, an increasing number of syndicated Fundamentalists (biblical literalists espousing a narrow Christian dogma) have roamed the TV channels on Sunday mornings, attracting small audiences while purveying an absolute religious exclusivism. Few but the "faithful" took note, and criticisms that occurred sporadically usually centered on the matter of manipulation of the purse strings of a small minority of the population. Beyond that, "mainline" Christians, seldom conversant with program content of TV evangels, just d id not take them seriously.

In the past five years, with the emergence of a new breed of TV evangelist, the \Varnings of Everett Parker serve to underscore the real possibility that ut last J reactionary, small and frankly illibernl group may have discovered the means to manipulate the medium and, through ii, the vast available audience.

Historieu!ly this new activist religious right movement appears to have been anticipated by Uilly Gruham. His radio show "Hour of Decision" consistently warned of dire consequences for the nation if Americans failed to turn to God and make decisions for Christ. Graham's fundamentalism led him to identify particular na tions, first Russia and then China, as the anti -Christ; thus driving him to comment upon American foreign policy. (President Reagan's reference to "evil empire" in a 1983 speech to the National Association of Evungelicals is reminiscent of the Graham style.) Further, his ideological alternative to communism became for him a touchstone of patriotism. Finally, with his endorsement of Richard Nixon in 1968, his politirnl involvement became openly partisan Ranging across the nation, indeed the world, preaching "American Messianism," Gruham became Protestantism's high priest, supported by liturgical church leaders who saw the evangelist as an appropriate leavening, and conservative evangelicals who viewed him as a gifted spokesman for the biblical faith.

Only a few thoughtful Christian leaders, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, were prepared to challenge his hegemony. Niebuhr warned an uninterested nation that the Nixonian Graham "has established a conforming religion by semi-officially inviting representatives of all disestablished religions" to perform for the ad ministrative family in the White House.

To be su re, in the wake o f recent activities by extreme Fundumentalists, Grnhum hus entered a note of caution about possible abuse, but his entire public rnreer reveals two sulient facts about TV religion: (1) there is a great deal of money in it; and (2) there is in-

stant celebrity status and power available. The combinution of these two phenomena suggested the potential for TV evangelists to enter "the power elite" and thereby exercise public influence.

For Graham his ideology, his bib!icism, was circumscribed bv an awareness that many of his¡ listeners were less committed to fundamentalism than he. Thus, for practical reasons, he did not advocate a national theocracy. He substituted a simplistic "civil religion" for his own belief in biblical

THE TV SUCCESSES, A RESULT OF SKILLFUL USE OF MEDIA BY FUNDAMENTALIST PREACHERS, HA VE CREATED A SIGN/FfCANT FORCE NOT ONLY IN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LIFE BUT IN THE POLITICAL REALM AS WELL. BUT THEIR POLITICAL ACTION HAS EXPOSED FUNDAMENTALISTS TO SEVERE CRITICISM.

infallibilty and the exclusive "saving" power of Jesus. This dual standard actually created criticism for Graham among religious biblicists, those literalist Christians who would tolerate no compromise when doing their Cod's will. They were not prepared to accept coalitions with secularists.

And traditionally that had meant that these absolutists operated outside the political sphere, concentrating upon soul salvation .:ind personal ethics.

By the mid-'7Us some Fundamentalists, recognizing themselves as the "outs" in American church culture, still smarting from public ridicu le resulting from the Scopes trial in 1925, resentful of being confined to the Sunday morning TV ghetto, began to examine their options. A growing number of independent Fundamentalist TV preuchers were becoming convers.:int with modern electronic technology and its use, and by the end of the '70s some combined thilt knowledge with a decision to address political and social issues, th us inaugu -

ruling a religious-broadcasting revolution.

Armed with an "infa llible Word of God" and vocal leudership dedicated to dogma, religious fanatics have become the focus of national attention. Men like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are involved in what will soon become a billion-dollar-ayear business. These two men have established "colleges" designed to indoctrinille students and send them forth as missionaries. Fa lwell, commenting upon Liberty Baptist College's teaching of biology, affirmed in 1982: "So now we, with Cod's help, want to see hundreds of our graduates go out into the classrooms teaching creationism- of course they'll be teaching evolution- but teaching why it's invalid and why it's foolish . " The TV successes, a result of skillful use of mediu by fundumentulist preachers, have created a significant force not only in American religious life but in the political realm as well. But their political action has exposed Fundamentalists to severe criticism.

Not only are these evangelists c.:illing for violations of the constitutional provision for church-stale separation, they ure also seeking to alter the principle of religious freedom by constitutional change.

In an attempt to misdirect the focus, the Fundamentalists compare themselves with Martin Luther King Jr. and the Berrigans of earlier decades, as if the only issue were free speech. But this is not the issue at all. Of course freedom of expression is not lo be

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VIEWPOINT CONT. denied. Rather the current debate had to do with the intentions of the TV evangelists as manifest in their preaching. The Berrigans and King, along with scores of

other religious leaders, differed with their conservative opponents on the breadth of constitutional guarantees of freedom and

justice, not on the values of republican democracy and the Bill

of Rights. The present engagement is precisely on this point:

leaders of the Moral Majority and other likeminded groups are advocating a form of theocracy; and, fully protected by the Bill of

Jefferson, the tradition was established for a nation committed to emancipation, human dignity, justice and liberty. The American Republic practices a secular morality influenced by many religious philosophies. The Moral Majority calls Americans to retreat from its democratic ethic, to embrace an exclusive deity who reveals his plans only to those who have properly defined him.

In their exercise of freedom to accomplish their ends, the Fundamentalists ca!l for a confrontation

Rights, they are utilizing the public airwaves to spread that message. This is not a liberal-conservative debate, as Senator Barry Goldwater understands. He has commented, "The uncompromising position of these groups is a divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system, if they gain sufficient strength. " The attention should be, must be, focused upon the ideological presuppositions being affirmed. It appears that while asserting belief in pluralism, this new brand of Christian political activist seeks to restrict, through constitutional change, the rights of those who differ. At best the Moral Majority would replace religious and political freedom with toleration, a condition in which the minority is beholden to the majority for any exercise of freedom.

The distinction between human rights and right beliefs is at the heart of the discourse. Beginning with Roger Williams and continuing through Madison and

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FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF 1980, FALWELL HAS PRESENTED A "CHRISTIAN BILL OF RIGHTS " TO PRESIDENT REGAN, ASKING HIM "TO COMMIT HIMSELF TO UPHOLD THESE BIBLICAL M ORAL PRINCIPLES FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEA RS."

with the American experiment.

The narrow sentiments they express were a hallmark of the Southern Christian leaders who developed a slave theology for the Confederacy in the 19th century.

Unlike theocracy practiced in Massachusells and Virginia during the colonial period, the United States is a secular, pluralistic state charged with impartially guarding freedom for the religious and non-religious alike. The laws of our land recognize crimes, not sins. Many of the TV evangelists would seemingly be pleased to assume the role of national priest, urging legislation to establish their peculiar interpretations of the Bible . In contrast, Martin Luther King Jr. sought to preserve rights rather than impose right beliefs.

In this battle of ideas the public has not been well served by the press. Reporters regularly address Falwell as if they were attending one of his church services, failing to pose insightful questions. Only a few know!-

edgeable journalists have sought to pose the hard inquiries, and they usually are identified as dyspeptic rationalists attacking the "man of God." Following the election of 1980, Falwell presented a "Christian Bill of Rights" to President Reagan, asking him "to commit himself to uphold these Biblical moral principles for the next four years." And what are those principles? They include support of prescribed prayer in public schools, denial of fundamental rights of women, identification of abortion as murder, the teaching of creationism in the schools an d the acceptance of a foreign policy based upon Falwell's private interpretation of the Bible.

Americans are watching an historic engagement. There are those on the one hand who would narrow the American dream, enforce prayer by law, invade individual privacy in the name of morality, and seek to impose their own definitions upon us all. Their opponents arc the advocates of freedom and diversity, no matter what political label they endorse. Television may wel! turn out to be the means of joining these issues, the theatre in which renewed allention may be directed to our basic heritage.

In our opinion the mainline churches and synagogues can identify the richness of biblical alternatives, eliminate the torpid doctrine of exclusivism and respond to the enlightened word of the prophet, "To do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God." In a world responsive to that sentiment the threat of dogmatic tyranny will be ended, and there should emerge a genuinely free conscience in a secular state.

Reflections After the Estate Sale

Reflections After the Estate Sale I have not stopped to mourn before now, but this morning. old man, I found your tools, mallets, files, open end wrenches, and knew finally, that your fierce, blue veined hands were quiet and forgetful of a hammer's heft.

I went today, unafraid, to your work room and found It empty and clean and impotent.

Gone were the malignant shadows and bespectacled scowls that warned me, as a child, away from your tools. Seeing this place of yours readied for strangers, I suspect that you are gone.

I will mourn now, for in your leave taking I. have found that you were a man, and died as men will: alone and infirm.

I will take comfort, however; you took a lion's share of life, and in your yielding you left not so much a grandfather, as the memory of a man I can love.

Michael Santa Barbara R'83

The Messenger is the University's annual student literary magazine, lne 1983 edition featured both art work and creative IA'liting samples chosen from open submissions. Areopagus, the 1-i<xiorary club for English majors, }oined with the Messenger staff in sponsoring awards for a short story submission and a poetry submission. Both awards went to

Michael Santa Barbara, R'83 of Hampton, Va , for his short story "Homeward Bound" and his poem "Reflections After the Estate Sale."

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"WE CALLED HIM 'CHIEF: .. "

by Lean ne Wade Beorn If you are out on the campus early enough- shortly after 6 a.m. almost any day, you may encounter a tall, bespectacled gentleman striding around the lake. He will

be dressed in old corduroys, a windbreaker and an English tweed hat, and he'll probably be

smoking a pipe.

If you can keep up with him-he walks two or three miles rather briskly- you may see him use his father's walking stick to make some interesting discoveries. Pipe, hat, discoveries- could this be Sherlock Holmes?

No, it is UR's own Dr. Robert Forte Smart, whose sleuthing is in the realm of science. He uses his stick to turn up botanical specimens hiding under rocks

and around trees.

Provost Emeritus, Professor of Biology Emeritus, former Dean of Richmond College, Dr. Smart, who retired in 1971, is inextricably linked with UR history over the last five decades. His daily walks epitomize his continuing vigor and enthusiasm and his interest in life in general and in UR life in particular.

Teaching, scholarship and leadership occupied Dr. Smart's attention during his academic career. On his retirement, achievements in all three spheres were recognized by the University community in these words: "An inspiring teacher, a scholar of deep insight, a talented administrator, Dr. Smart has been in the forefront of planning and leadership at this university . The University is stronger by far because of his distinguished service and the enduring influence he has had on all who have known him ."

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Reflecting on his 43 years at UR, Dr. Smart counts as most important and rewarding his association with students and his fel lowship with the faculty, with whom he shared loyalty to the "little college" UR once was. His loyalty endures.

"My first interest has always been teaching," Dr. Smart remarked in a recent interview . "I like to feel that I had a part in directing the lives of a number of fine young people." Former students and faculty members concur that his ability to teach and lead was outstanding.

Young Robert Smart almost became a physician instead of a teacher. The Tyro, Mississippi native had been accepted to Tulane Medical School, but he couldn't turn down an opportunity that few boys from the Deep South were offered in those days- a scholarship to Harvard. Off he went to that northern institution, where his fascination with plant life lured him away from medicine into botany, and led to advanced degrees. He earned a Master's from Harvard in 1929, and a Ph.D. in 1935.

When he and his bride of two weeks, the former Eleanor

Ferguson, arrived at UR in the fall of 1929, it was a school of 500 boys and 200 girls, with a small, devoted faculty. The Smarts liked the closely-knit community and decided to stay, Dr. Smart turning down an offer in the '30s to teach at Harvard.

The young couple were popular as chaperones for the Westhampton girls, who could not leave campus unattended. "We had to be sure to get the students back before curfew," Eleanor Smart recalled. "Otherwise the gate vvould be locked and they'd have had to swim the lake!"

Dr. George Modlin, UR Chancellor, was president for 25 of Dr. Smart's years here. The former president credits Smart with hiring the faculty "which made the biology and chemistry departments so outstanding." But when Dr. Smart came here, the school was so small there were only two professors each in math and science. He was 24 when he began teaching: "The entire facul ty could meet in a room in Ryland Hall. I'll never forget my first faculty meeting. 1 looked around and wondered, 'Will I ever be that old?' "

Dr. Smart af his microscope in 1935

Now, 54 yea rs later and "t hat old," Dr. Smart's eyes sti ll gleam w hen he discusses h is "love" for m yxomycetes (slime mould s), on which he did his doctoral research. Myxomycetes are org,misms on the borderline between the plant and animal kingdoms.

His enthusiasm for these "incredible masses of protoplasm that creep along over wet logs" and for the "beauty" of their microscopic structure is undiminished, and it is easy to see how he turned the study of such things into stimulating courses for students .

The recollections of Harriet Walton, W'35, for 37 years a science teacher at St. Catherine's School, seem to typify the opinions of Dr. Smart's former students: "He made me enjoy it more than any other subject. I never knew anyone \Vho didn't enjoy his class."

Elizabeth Angle, W'47, calls him a "marvel" as a teacher; she and Jane Gray, W'32, remember fondly the field trips and the weekly hikes around the lake.

"After all these years I' ve never forgotten how exciting he made the study of nature, even fungi, " Mrs. Gray recalls.

In class, he was a dominant lecturer with a strong voice, Dr. Francis B. Leftwich, R'56, now Professor of Biology, remembers. " He was interesting, fair, thorough, and compassionate, a father figure to faculty and students. We called him 'Chief' His record is unsurpassed in inspiring people to do their best and to go further in various scientific fields and medicine." At one time, 10 of Dr. $mart's former students chaired biology departments at colleges across the country.

Because of the high regard in which he was held by foculty and students, and because of his administrative experience as chairman of biology, he was, Dr. Modlin points out, the "logical choice" to succeed Dr. Raymond B. Pinchbeck as Dean of Men in 1957.

"Dr. Pinchbeck was greatly respected and beloved," Dr. Modlin notes, "and it was a tribute to Dr. Smart that he was chosen almost unanimously, and that he fu nctioned so admirably."

" I agreed to be dean only if I could continue teaching," Dr. Smart says. " I wanted the students to know me, and so I taught human biology, a course required of all freshman men."

Entering students learned that the dean was "human." His closeness lo students and their respect for him gave Dean Smart a special ability to deal with problems that arose.

One night in spring stands out in Frank Leftwich's mind, a night when several hundred young men gathered at the Richmond side of the old Westhampton Bri dge, bent on crossing over and staging a "panty raid."

"Dean Smart stood at the end-a towe ring figure at six foot three, 200 pounds," Dr. Leftwich remembers, "and held up his hand and asked them to go home. He commanded such respect that they turned around quietly and went home."

In addition to his teaching and administrative duties, Dr. Smart was for a number of years on the invited faculty at Mountain Lake Biological Station of the University of Virginia. He was president of the Virginia Academy of Science, and the Virginia Institute for Scientific Research.

He served on the Henrico County School Board for 18 years and was active in the Robert E. Lee Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was also an active member of River Road Baptist Church .

His depth and breadth of experience made him the logical choice for the new position of Provost of the University in 1967. " He \Vas the chief academic officer at a crucial time," Dean C. J.

Gray points out, "and he was instrumental in smoothing the transition period when Dr. E. Bruce Heilman became president."

President Heilman calls Dr. Smart "my umbilical cord to the University, its history and its academic life. His maturity and long service, his identification with the school, and his personal good will made me feel warm and welcome from the start." !-:l aving completed his tasks in the transition, Dr. Smart retired. He continues his interests in science, \voodworking and gardening, and he enjoys spending time with his wife, two children, seven grandchildren, and his great grandchild.

Being in the company of Dr. Robert Smart today is not vastly different, one surmises, from being with that young associate professor who arrived in Richmond ful l of enthusiasm in 1929.

He is still an active participant in life, and he is still a presence in the life of UR. Dr. Heilman reflected recently: "Once, in the midst of what then seemed a 'crisis,' Bob Smart drew for me an analogy that I have never forgotten. Speaking of the importance of each of us to our own time in history, he reminded me that a finger dipped into a pool of water leaves no impression when it is removed."

But that is not true o f Dr. Robert Smart and his impact on UR. "He did leave an impression and the wate r still ripples."

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II faculty, Dr. Heilman praised his "strong leadership in improving the overall academic quality of the institution."

He again had words of praise when he announced Dr. Bowen's appointment. "We are extremely pleased to have found a scholar and an administrator of such high caliber," he said. "Dr. Bowen will bring to the University of Richmond a proven record of excellence as a teacher, scholar and academic administrator." AG amt fH

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NEW PROVOST FROMW&M ANNOUNCED Dr. Zeddie P. Bowen has been appointed vice president and provost at the University. He as-

sumes his post on Sept. L As chief academic officer he replaces Dr. Melvin L. Vulgnmore, who will be inaugurated as the 13th president of Albion College in Michigan in August.

Dr. Bowen has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the College of William and Mary since 1981. A Georgia 11ÂŁ1tive who grevv up in Baltimore, he is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he majored in geology. His studies in geology continued at Harvard University, where he received Master of Arts and Ph.D.

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Dr. Bowen's career as a professional educator began at the University of Rochester, where he taught from 1962-76 and was chairman of the geology department from 1974-76. During his tenure at Rochester he was widely recognized for his leaching, scholarship and research as a paleontologist. In 1976 he became the provost and dean at Beloit College. After five years he moved to William and Mary as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

The new UR provost and his wife Carol have three sons, ages 20, 17, and 14.

The search committee which settled on Dr. Bowen began looking for a new vice president and provost in April, only a few weeks after Dr. Vulgamore accepted his appointment al Albion College. Announcing Dr. Vulgamore's new appointment to the

Westhampton College is proud to have a 1983 graduate, Ann Fulcher of Stuart, Va., chosen as one of the 20 Governor's Fellows this year. A Westhampton graduate of '82, Margaret Wo!fensberger, is also among this year's Fellows.

Virginia Governor Charles S. Robb instigated the summer program in 1980 to offer gifted young graduates a chance to get an insider's experience of how state government works. The Fellows work directly with members of the Governor's Cabinet or personal staff in areas such as education, human resources, administration and finance, and public safety. Since no state funds are appropriated for the program, the University is providing financial assistance to Ann and Margaret during their summer fellowships in Richmond.

Ann Fulcher graduated in May this year with a degree in biology. She has twice won the Undergraduate Research Grant in biology at UR, and was nominated

for a Rhodes Scholarship. At Westhampton she was elected to Mortar Board and Phi Beta Kappa.

Margaret Wolfensberger, now attending the University of Virginia Law School, majored in political science as a Westhampton College undergraduate. At UR she was numed a Truman Scholar (a national award based on academic excellence) and was president o f Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary leadership society.

Of the 20 Governor's Fellows for "1983, 17 attend Virginia colleges and universities; one was chosen from Harvard and two from Princeton. AG

PROMINENT WOMEN VISIT CAMPUS Two very distinguished women came lo campus in March- one to address the new Phi Beta Kappa initiates, their parents and friends; the other to address a gathering of professional women under the auspices of the WILL program of Westhampton College.

Dr. Catherine S. Sims was the guest speaker for the annuu!

Phi Beta Kappa induction and dinner. She is president of the United Chapters of Phi 13eta Kappa, retired from the history faculty at Emory University and the author of two books on the history of the British Parliament. She lives in Atlanta. Dr. Sims, offering "A Lesson in Survival," said her message was directed to old and new members of "an ancient and honorable fraternity"- Phi Beta Kappa. And "survival" referred to the society's enduring clout in the world of academia.

Dr. Sims allributed Phi Beta Kappa's staying power to the lively activities of both its chapters and its alumni associations through all the years since it was founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776.

Jacqueline Wexler, former president of Hunter College and now president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ), talked about worn-

en and their prospects in the 1980s at the Westhampton College seminar. Mrs. Wexler is a former Roman Catholic nun who served as president of Webster College in St. Louis, Mo., before becoming president of Hunter in 1970. She left the Sisters of Loretto (a leaching order) in 1967, and two years later married a New York businessman, Paul J. Wexler, in a Roman Catholic ceremony at which a rabbi assisted.

The NCCJ president, whose warm and vital personality communicated itself immediately to her large audience in Keller Hall, urged women in the '80s, confronted with so many choices and career opportunities, to hold on to their humanity and their talents for nurture.

"I paid enormous attention to elevator operators at Hunter College when I was president," Mrs. Wexler mused. "The ones who did a great job at that did as much for Hunter College as I did."

On the subject of inculcating values in children, Mrs. Wexler offered a tribute to her parents, farmers in Illinois. Neither had much formal education, she said, but both were extremely bright.

They taught their three daughters to always respect people for what they were. SC and AG

Starke's squad was a loser and he was feeling the pain.

The scene tells much about the type of men who will take the field for the Spiders in 1983. They are men who are determined to win because they know far too well the hurt thi1t comes with losing. It doesn't matter whether it's a spring game, a practice game or a regular season game, the Spiders want to win.

"I was proud of my performance," recalls Bayer, "but I was even prouder of the guys on both teams. Anyone watching would never have known that we had a

UR Blue Squad Captain David Rayer

FOOTBALL '83: DETERMINED TO WIN The contrast was startling- the type one so often sees in sports.

David Bayer stood at midfield, surrounded by family and friends. His helmet \Vas tucked under his left arm ,md he smiled broadly. The annual spring foot~ ball game on April 9 was over and David Bayer \Vas the hero.

He had carried the ball 16 times for 170 yards, including touchdown runs of 54 and 38 yards, as his Blue team had defeated the Red squad, 21-20.

Less than 10 feet away, Billy Starke stood alone. Tears rolled down his face and splattered on his already rain-soaked jersey.

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tough season last year. We all want to win; we are willing to work hard, practice hard and play hard. We know that we'll get there."

Like Baver, Billy Starke also believes the"SpiderS will "get there" in 1983. "There's a feeling around this squad that is very special," says the defensive back from Jacksonville, Fla. "We're together as a team and our enthusiasm is great. There's not one of us who didn't want to win the spring game. Sure, we were only playing ourselves but that didn't matter."

To Coach Dal Shcalv, there were no losers last sprillg. "It was a perfed way to end an excellent training season," says Shealy. "What we saw excited us about the days ahead. We gave the team a new look by changing in some areas on both offense and defense, and the team gave us effort, determination and desire. Intensity and aggressiveness 20

are words that we use over and over and now they have real meaning to our squad. We are proud of these men."

For the Spiders, the season begins on September 3 in Hattiesburg, Miss., when Richmond meets Southern Mississippi. The Spiders then have five straight home contests with Ohio University, Toledo, Wake Forest, Boston University and Central Florida.

The season ends with UR meeting Virginia Tech and Virginia Militarv awav, James Madison at home, 'and Colgate and William & Mary on the road.

"It is a very attractive schedule for us," says Shealy. "The thought of playing five straight home games leaves all of us excited. There's no doubt that being at home for that long will be a boost to our team and our fans.

We hope to get on a roll and don't plan to stop."

"There are always high expectations at the beginning of any

season," says Bayer, "and this year will be no different in that regard. For us, however, the feeling will be real. For a long time we have been looking forward to brighter days and we know those days don't come by accident or by luck. They come through hard work, skill, determination and desire-and we will have all of that. We have a spirit now that is hard to put into words, but it is real and I think it is here to stay.

We're determined." BB

FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES WORK OF INDEPENDENTS For the average filmgoer, independent filmmaking brings to mind jittery camera work, mismatched shots, disjointed sequences, and other telltale signs of the enthusiastic but unpolished amateur. But in recent years,

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and college campuses throughout the country.

"Visions of Nine: The Tucker-Boatwright Festival on Independent Films and Filmmakers"

ver: Partisan Politics in Leslie County," which parallels the political ambitions of a local judge with Richard M. Nixon's 1978 visit to Leslie County, Kentuckyhis first public appearance after resigning from the presidency.

The festival's last day began with a showing and discussion of "It's Grits," Woodward's rollicking documentary on the cultivation, preparation and consumption of the South's favorite breakfast staple. It concluded with Segal and Strommer showing and discussing their recent work.

Segal's animated shorts, "Pandora's Box" and "Red Ball Express," were alternated with "Sisters" and "Mother," pieces from Strommer's introspective portfolio on the family.

From first lo last, the TuckerBoatwright Festival offered the Richmond community a broad sampling of the thematic and stylistic diversity within current independent filmmaking. AT

blend of pixillation and single frame photography. The following night, a showing of "A Celtic Trilogy," a p.:irt-documentary, part-narrative rendering of the Celtic revival in Ireland, Wales and Brittany, preceded a discussion bv its director, Dowdev, of the fi!l11's idiosyncratic ove(lay of interviews with clergy, craftsmen, and local politicians with Siobhan McKenna's lyrical retelling of ancient myths.

During the next two days, the Appalshop contingent of Elizabeth Barret, Frances Morton, Mimi Pickering and Helen Lewis presented and discussed seven of the films made by the collective since its inception in 1969. Of chief interest were "Coalmining Women" (also featured at this spring's Atlanta Film Festival), Barret's investigation of the physical hardships and sexual discrimination endured by the newest members of the rank and file, and Morton's "The Big Le-

RETROSPECTIVE HONORS RETIRING ART PROFESSOR JEAN NE CAMPBELL Back in 1941, introducing Jeanne Begicn Campbell's first one-wornan show at the Virginia Museum,

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profiled this development through a series of screenings, lectures, and panel discussions at the University in March. Organized by English professors Irby B. Brown and Arthur Todras, the week-long festival featured Kathleen Dowdey, a highly acclaimed Atlanta-based filmmaker originally from Washington, D.C.; four members of Appalshop, an Appalachian film and folklore collective located in Whitesburg, Kentucky; and local filmmakers Steve Segal, Phil Trumbo, Stan Woodward and Joan Strommer.

The festival officially opened before a throng of students, faculty, and other Richmond residents with back-to-back screenings of "Futuropolis," a work in progress by animators Segal and Trumbo that spoofs science fiction and other popular genres. Afterward, the two filmmakers presented a slide lecture on the making of the film, highlighting its distinctive

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Prof. Jeanne Begien Campbell

written in 1983, as she retires after nearly 40 years of teaching studio art at the University.

"Jeanne Campbell has a special place among Virginia artists," wrote Thomas C. Colt Jr. "Her work is like her spirit and reflects

its moods. It is contagious, for it indicates to the viewer the essential pleasure that she finds in putting paint on canvas. She sub-

scribes to no 'isms' and, a competent craftsman, she concerns herself largely in the production of beautiful and sound painting.

Thus, her work glows with color,

has splendid paint quality, and is as delightful, as enthusiastic and as true as she is herself. May she

long be herself, and paint, for we need refreshing."

Jeanne Campbell's 1983 retrospective show-about 50 works dating back to 1936- hung in the University's Marsh Gallery March 20-April 9. It provoked the reflective attention it deserved from the Richmond press.

The Times-Dispatch art columnist, Robert Merritt, devoted his entire Sunday art column to a history of Prof. Campbell's life and artistic growth into a leading fi gure in the Richmond art community.

From 1944-83- with a few years out during her daughter 22

Connie's early childhood-Prof.

Campbell taught studio art at the University. She had three onewoman shows at the Virginia Museum, which owns one of her paintings. Her work appeared in prestigious galleries in New York and Washington. Her painting "Lime Slag" was chosen for the New York World's Fair from a Southern States Preview exhibit at the Virginia Museum.

Since the Marsh Gallery opened in '68 in the Modlin Fine Arts Center, Prof. Campbell has supervised almost all of the approximately 25 exhibits held there each season by invited artists.

As columnist Merritt suggested, her retrospective show "gives her old friends and her young students a rare opportunity to look back over her 50 years of painting activity"- flower studies, portraits of friends and of her husband Jewett and her daughter Connie; her garden caught in the early morning light; scenes from Colorado and Maine, where she went to study under famous teachers; all done with what The News-Leader's critic Roy Proctor calls "a wonderful sense of coloristic inevitability This flair for color rightness, more than anything else ... aligns her in a Richmond colorist tradition that

includes Theresa Pollak and Nell Blaine ." Proctor summed up the retrospective as signifying "a rich life richly lived."

This year's senior art majors, who took over the Marsh Gallery for their own show in April, dedicated it "with respect and affection" to Jeanne Begien Campbell.

Her numerous friends on campus echo museum director Colt's wish: May she long be herself, and keep on painting, for we need refreshing. AC

MORE VISIBILITY FOR WRC THIS YEAR The 1982-83 year has been one of increased visibility for the Women's Resource Center at UR, says Dr. Jane Hopkins, director of the center. "We've grown from being a local organization to one with state-wide visibility, and we're becoming known across the nation," she says. A workshop on developing potential drew women from Tidewater and Fredericksburg, and women have come from as far as Alabama and Colorado for Life Planning Seminars.

Because much of its publicity is by word of mouth, part of the center's increasing exposure can

be attributed to the variety of people it serves. Twenty-five to 75 is the most common age range and lower, middle and upperclass people are clients. Those wanting to make career changes, to re-enter the job market or to be referred to an attorney receive services along with homemakers, relocated women, women who have had miscarriages and women who want to have a child but cannot.

The Women's Resource Center is not just for women either20 percent of the clients in career counseling are men. "There arc very few places where men can get that kind of help," explains Dr. Hopkins.

Such a variety of clients indicates the variety of services offered. Career counseling, classes, peer counseling, support groups, monthly art exhibits, workshops and brown bag lunch seminars are some. During the 1982-83 year the center's newsletter was sent to 6,000 people and Dr. Hopkins spoke lo 100 groups.

Services vary with the community's needs. Currently 11 sections of the Life Planning Seminar are offered annually and demand for ii is still growing.

Scholarships are provided for low-income women who are unable to afford the fee for individual career counseling, and peer counseling is offered on a sliding scale based on ability to pay.

Dr. Hopkins doubts the center will ever have to close for lack of interest. "Adults have to go through life stages, like children

do, and we're here lo help meet their needs."

The center's funding style has also helped its visibility.

"We are becoming a model for the self-supported center, one that does not receive state or federal funds," says Dr. Hopkins.

Seventy percent of the $100,000 budget is raised through tuition, fees and memberships. The remaining 30 percent comes from fund -raising events such as an annual art auction and donations from businesses, groups and individuals.

Trained volunteers, 60 of them during the 1982-83 year, contribute lo the center. Services they provide include counseling, assisting in research, bookkeeping, art exhibit coordination, membership coordination, library maintenance, and assisting with psychological testing.

New services on tap for the 1983-84 year, in addition to the center's regular offerings, include day-long workshops on the promotable woman, and group effectiveness and group dynamics as well as fall and spring versions of the popular workshop "Packaging Your Potential." A support group for relocated women will also be available. FH

PLAYERS TAKE GBS' S "DON JUAN" TO NEW YORK With two cars, a van, a U-Hau l truck and a shoe-string budget, a group of UR theatre students made the trip to New York in late May \Vith Jack Welsh, director of the University's theatre department.

They presented six performances of a revised, portable production of George Bernard Shaw's Don Jwm in Hell at the Raft Theatre in Manhattan. It is on a street of store-front and attic theatres known as Theatre RO\v.

These small showcase theatres c1re used for new productions, ne,v scripts and experimental theatre. Agents and producers are often in the audience, Welsh sai d .

The University Players were invited to the Raft bv Bruce Speas, R'78, nO\V m~naging direc-

tor of the Raft. The !'!ayers had presented D011 Juan, Shaw's provocative and witty comedy, as one of their four regular productions at the Camp Theatre last season.

Back in Richmond to begin a delayed summer vacation, Jack Welsh summed up the Raft experience: "It was so worthwhile that, despite all the work and the sacrifice, the students and faculty are ready to try it again.

"In a 47-seat house, we sold out one performance, and had an average audience of about 30 per performance. We worked strenuously, and we had a good time. lt gave us a taste of professiona l theatre and what it demands, and, ,1s an opportunity not often available to undergraduate students of theatre, was a wonderful adjunct to the theatre program."

John Countryman, who codirected the play' vvith Welsh, said: "Particularly valuable for students was the intense work preparing for the trip. lt closely duplicated the typical working conditions of a professional company."

The cast of D011 Juan included Chris Cleary of Media, Pa., in the title role; Kevin Creamer of Philadelphia, cast as the devil; Kathleen Wattis of Wayne, Pa . as Dona Ana, and Jon Hood o f Richmond as the Commandant.

The Players asked tha t we express appreciation to all UR alumni and friends who supported the Nev,, York event. LF

AMNESTY HEAD DECRIES ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS "We feel that anybody who is in jail and should not be in jail, anybody who is facing the torturer or the execu tioner, shou ld have a friend."

That's how John G. Healey, executive director of Amnesty International U.S.A., summarized the goals of his organization in a speech on April 5 in th e Gothvald Science Center. The speech was the highlight of campus events surrounding Amnesty International's I luman Rights Week .

Healey said the 69 cou ntries violating human rights include El 23

AROUND Tl-/ÂŁ LAKE CONT Salvador, Russia, and South AfriExamples of the violations perpetrated each year include the execution of thousands of peasants in El Salvador, the use of electrical cattle prods on prisoners in South Africa, the execution of political dissidents in China and the drugging of Russian psychiatric patients who disagree with government policies.

Amnesty International tries to halt human rights violations by bringing world-wide attention lo governments that practice torture

and murder. Violations observed by journalists, lobby groups and special research teams are documented and reported. " If anyone is in fear of torture," Healey said, "they can get a hold of us and we go through our cables, our computers, our telexes as fast as possible to the press, government and the administrators of justice in the country We're looking at the nexus of how governments go about their business and when they violate the bond or it breaks down, we yell about it and take it to the people and the press."

Publicizing human rights violations is becoming more difficult as governments become more knowledgable in torture methods.

Said Healey: "Smart police forces know torture does not give good information. They know that only 20 percent of the information given under torture tactics is worthwhile. As a result some governments are beginning lo get people in fast, hurt them fast, and get them back out on the street " Capital punishment is another penalty which Amnesty International opposes. "The U.S. is the only country in NATO, other than Turkey, with the death penalty," admonished Healey. "Is this the kind of company that the largest democracy in the world wants to keep, with Russia, China and South Africa?"

Healey has held his position since last year. I le is a former director of the Peace Corps in Lesotho and a former Franciscan Capuchin brother.

Other campus activities during Hum an Rights Week, according to Jeff Westphal R'84, chairman of the Amnesty International UR Campus Network, included 24

appearances by a Soviet dissident, screenings of three films, "State of Siege," "Night and Fog," and "Ten Days That Shook the World," and distribution of literature.

"Our goal was to educate the campus on the work of Amnesty International," said Westphal. FH

IN MEMORIAM: SPENCER D .

ALBRIGHT JR. Dr. Spencer Delancey Albright Jr. , professor emeritus of political science and former chairman of the political science department at the University, died in Richmond on June 18. He was 82.

He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Arkansas in 1922, a master of arts degree from the Unive rsity of Chicago in 1932, and a doctorate from the Unive rsity of Texas in 1940.

Dr. Albright served in the U.S. Army Infantry in World War I and in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II, when he was discharged as a captain. He taught at several colleges and universities across the nation until 1946, when the Universi ty's new president, Dr. George M. Modlin, hired him as one of 25 additions to the faculty lo teach the influx of veterans.

l._ Dr. Spencer D. Al/mghl Jr.

In 1962 Dr. Albright became a full professor and in 1967 he was named chairman of the political science and history department. When a separate political science department was formed in 1969, he became its chairman, a position he held until his retirement in 1971.

Dr. Albright's scholarly work included a book, The American Ballot, and articles and papers for professional journals. He also wrote articles for the encyclopedias Americana, Brittanica and Collier's and was a regular contributor to the Book of the States.

He was well known for his sincere interest in students, says Dr. Modlin. Dr. Ellis M. West, R'S8 and now associate professor of political science at the University, recalls that Dr. Albright "believed that people were more important than ideas. Even though he was very scholarly, the s tudents came first. He was warm, outgoing, and very approachable." That openness made him popular as an advisor to student organizations, says Dr. West. " He was the most sought-after professor in that capacity."

He was also outspoken. "Dr Albright was a man of strong convictions which he expressed fluently and pursuasively," recollects Dr. Modlin. "There was no question of where he stood on things." Dr. West echoes that.

"He didn't apologize for the federal government or the Democratic party. Even though he was a very mild-mannered, gentle man, he stood up for politicians and causes.

The Professor Spencer D. Albright Jr. Fellowship in Political Science or I listory was established on December 7, 1978. Its purpose is to assist UR gradua te students in political science or history who have demonstrated superior ability and who need scholarship aid to pursue their studies. Four students have been selected to dale. Memorial contributions may be made to the fellowship by contacting H. Gerald Quigg, vice president of University Relations at the University. FH

I 30's Walter L. Brock Jr., R'38, of Lexington, Ky., represented Dr. I lcilman at the inauguration of Dr. Richard L. .\1orrill as Prt>sident of Centre College on April 23

Capt. William E. Baker, R'S9, of Richmond was rffently named an Aide-deCamp to the Governor of the Common-

wealth of Virginia. Capt. Baker is Senior Vice President of the Reserve Officers As-

40's Dr. W. H . ReMine has been elected an honorary member of the Puerto Rican Chapter, American College of Surgeons.

He thus becomes one of two honorary members who are non -Puerto Ricans. This unusual move came about as a result of his long and continued support of the programs for that meeting.

A. L. Philpott, R'41, L'47, H'78, of Bassett, Va., delivered the Founders Day ad dress at Ferrum College on :vtarch 14 Dr. Martin Sheintoch, R"42, of Petersburg, Va ., was recently appointed a Fellow of the International College of Dentists, in re.:.:ognition of his contribution to his profession. I le has had his dental practice in Petersburg for 30 years. He is a past president of the Southside Virginia Dental Society Component 111, Virginia State Dental Association Saul M. Luria, R'49, of Waterford, Ct., has been named director of the Vision Department of the l\'aval Submarine Med ical Research Lab in Groton, Ct.

SO's C. Norman Woerner, 13"52, of Watchung, N.J .. is Coordinator of Vocational and Career Education and Job Placement in a lo· cal school system in J\:ew Jersey. He also serves as adjunct instructor in a loca l college as well as a partner in Career Counseling Center of New Jersey.

Joe C. Philpott, B'53, of Bassett was elect· ed a director of Bassett Furniture Indus· tries, Inc., at their February meeting of the Board of Directors. Before joining Bassett in 1956 he was with the U. 5. Army 2nd Armored Division in Germany.

Dr. Everett Gill, R'56. of Stone Mount,iin, Ga ., represented Dr. L Uruce Heilman at the inauguration of Dr. Ruth A. Schmidt as President of Agnes Scott College in At!Jnta on April 9

'19 Frcsh111n11 clas~ of(iffrs

sociation ,md Chairman of the Recruiting

District Assistance Council, Naval Renuiting District, Richmond

Dr. Allan S. Hammock, R'59, of Morgantown, W. Va., has been named chairman

'34 Most i11tcllcct11al st11dcuts of the department of political science at West Virginia University. A past president of the Wt>st Virginia Political Scicnce As· sociation, Hummock is the co-editor of two textbooks and the author of several articles on \Nest Virginia government and politics. He also serves on thc State Elcc· tion Commission, and on the boMd of directors of th e Monongalia County chaptcr of the American Red Cross.

Richard S. Parsley, B'59, of Littleton, Colo., has bcen appoin tcd sales manager, Filtration and Minera ls Division, Manville Corp. in tknvcr. Parsley joined M<mvillc in 1%4 The Rev. George Ricketts , R'59, of Rich mond directs the Prison Chaplain Service as Executive Director. Mr. Ricketts bcgan working with the chaplain service al the Sta le Penitentiary wh ile he was a L' R student, and believes the service is an effective ministry. I !e points out tha t the adult prison popu lat ion has risen 70 percent since 1976. Du ring tha t period, the number of Protestant chaplains working in the state's 44 prisons and eight juvenill' institutions has risen six pcrcent- by two part-time semina ry students. I le said, "We'vc got enough chaplains. W("vl' got too many prisonl'rs.

James K. Sugahara, R'6L of Glastonbu ry, Conn., was rccent!y appointed a dircctur in the da ta processing dt·p.irtment of the Travelers Insurance Compnnies in ll nrtford, Conn. Sugahara is a mcmber of both the Mathematics National I lonor Society and the Physics National Honor Sotidy Paul Brickner, R"62, o f Willoughby, Ohio, hds bcen serving as an Administrative Law Judge in Clcvcland sin cc November, ]981 William F. Mezger, 13'62, of Richmond is second-in-command of the Virginia Em· ployment Commissiun·s research dt'part ment. Once a month he faces repurtcrs and TV cameras tu interpret thc me,ming of the VECs latest batch of state unemployment statistics James J. Savage, ll'66, of Richmond is present ly superintendent of The bpor t Blended Strip at Philip Morris U.S.A. He joined Philip :\torris in 1974 Lo uis M. Markwith, B'67, RB'79, of Stone Mounta in, Ga., represented Dr. E. Bruce Heilman al the inaugura tion of Dr. Louis W. Sullivan as President of the More house School of Medicine 011 April 10 Or. R. Allen Saville, R'67, of Richmond hus l'st,1blished a firm which provides management ccmsultation and planning assistance to private and public-sector orgnnizations. The name of the firm is .\ fan agement-Planning-Systems, lnc L. D. Metcalfe, B'6S, of St. Joseph, Mich., has been named director of research and dewlopment marketing at \Vh ir lpool Corp In his ncw position he will <Kl as Ji· aison between the corporak wse,irch and engineering deve lopment functions and Whirlpool marketing departments. Mc!· calfc joined the company in 1972 Dr. W. Christian Sizemore, R'60, has bcen named President of Alderson -Broaddus Cullcge in Phillipi, W.Va., cffcctive 5l'ptember 1, 1983. Dr. Sizemorc carnnl a I.I.A. ,it UR; a B.D., from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; an M.S from U'.'JC; and the advanced M.S. and the Ph.D. from Florida State University Dr. Sizemore is very active in his church, First Baptist of Douglas. I le has published several articles in professional journals a11d was founding editor of the Georgia Uniun Lisi uf Serials . Dr. Sizemore served a11 unprecedented seven terms on thP executive committee of the administrative committee on Ac;idemic Affairs of the Un iversity System of Georgia

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William J. Bugg Jr. R'60, of Winston-Salem , N.C., has bccn named vicl' pTl'sident in charge of pension and mass markl'ting product dcvelopment for the Agency Division of lntegon Life Insurance Corp. He was formerly vice pre sident of the Group Division's Risk Manageml'nt Dept. He received his Master of Actuarial Science dl'gree from Georgi a State University in Atlanta in 1963. A Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and an Enrolled Actuary, Bugg is also a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. I le joined ln tegon in 1982.

Upton S. Martin 111, R'70, of Richmond has been promo ted to vice president Jt the lfank of Virginia. Martin joined the bank in 1970. He is a 1982 graduate of the School of Retail Bank Management at the University of Virginia.

Larry Chowning, R'72, of Urbanna, Va., rccently published his first book: Barml

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that until re<:ent ly has existed in relative isolation. Chowning, a staff reporter for The Southside Sentitwl in Urb .. nnn. lives in Urbanna Crt·ek with his wife, Dee Lantz Chowning, W'73, and their thrt·e children. I le is the son-in-law of John G. (Bob) Lant,: Jr, cashier in the UR P;iyments Office Ronald S. OtlaYio, Pl.'72, of Richmond, • commercial fin,mcl' officl'r in Bank of Vir.ii;inia'1 Anl't Bul'd Ll'ndinp; Divi1ion, h.11 bl°l'n appointed by Virginia Gowrnor Charl.-1 5. Robb u hi, Aide-dl'-Camp. ln thi1 po1ition he will ~ui,t w it h introduction, in the receivint line at function• at the E:i.ccutiw M~n~ion Jo seph T. Lacy Jr., B73, of Goochland, Va., has bct'n dectd to the bmrd of di· rectors of thl' llank of Goochland. Lacv is president of J.T. LJcy Appliances, Inc., and is activ(' in the community of Gouc hl;ind Mitchell A. Weber, R'73, of Powhat.111, Vil., has bcen promoted to Security Qffi. cer of the Aud it-Security Division at thc Bank of Virginia. 1.-Veber joined the division last ye;ir as a se<:urity investigator, af· !er having worked for the Richmond Po· lice Department for eight ye;irs Frederick S. Joh11s011 Jr., 876, of Rich· mond has been prumoll'd to director of specialty retail accounting at Bcst Products. He joined the firm in 1979 Dr. Joseph Palazeti, R'76, of Dt•arborn, Mich .. a four-year residency in orthopedic surgery al Pontiac Osteopathic Hospi tal P;il;izeti graduated from Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1979, then joined the st;iff at Pontiac Osteop;ithic Hospital's Oxford Health Care Center. He has been chid attending physician there since it opened in 1980.

Donald C. Blessing, R'77, L'SO, is practicing law in Farmville, Va.

Skipper: Ta/es of a Tangier Island Waterman (Tidewa ter Publishers, Ce11terville, Md.) It's a collection of tales about the life of Elmer Crockell, a friend a11d neighbor of Chowning's. Crockett was born on Tangier Island. a Chesapeake l:lay community

'52 Junior cla,s officer,: /,ft to right, T, Pollard, W, H•rhada, S. Ph illi)J,,

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Roderick W. Howard, R'78, of Tallahassee, Fla., has been named Sports Director at WTNT Radio in Tallahassee. l loward will also be the "color analyst" for Florida State U. basketball this coming season.

S te ven L. Arledge, R"79, of Fairfax, Va., owns a carpentry bus iness assembling decks and garages Robert l'hili p Baumler, R"79, of Fair fax is Regional Account S;:,lrs Manager for Commerce Drug Co. Baumler handles headquarters business with such groups as Safeway, Peoples Drug, Standard Drug and Southland (7-! 1) Corp John Charles Becker , R"79. of Washington, D.C. is St-nior Corporate Accounting Analyst for Marriott Corp., Bethesda, Md Steven Lee Au s tin , R"79. of Louisville, Ky., a lx,cembcr theology graduate of Southern Baptist Theological ScminMy, received th(' Outstanding Senior Award during Commenn·mcnt activities John B. McKenne y 111 , t-l'79, of Lorton, Va., has bc~,n promoted to vice pre~idcnt by the Bank of Virginia. McKenney joined the bank in 1976. I le is;:, commercial loan officer in the metropoli tan department

SO's Al Und e rwood, R"80, of Sandston. Va., has been named industrial department manager for the Richmond br,mch of Noland Company. wholesale distributor of mechanical l'qu ipment to the building trades. L'nderwood began his career w ith Noland ns ,,n industrial salesman al the branch in 1977.

Marriages Lt. William P. H arper 111 , 8'79, stationed in GreKe, was married to Karen M. An ders.on on February 26, 1983.

Sidney J. King, B'61, of Richmond, married Odores M. Young on April 16, 1983.

Birth 1975/Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Williams, (R). a son, Clavton Thomas, born October 7, 1982

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Deaths 1915/Frank E. O ' Neill, (R) of Tujunga, Calif., dil'd Januarv 27, 1980.

191 8/Dr. Ray H. Abrams, (R) of Lansdownt>, l'a., d ied February 6, 1983 1921/Robert Franklin Edi;;;ards, (R) (L28) of Smithfield, Va., d ied August 20, 1982 Ile was employed by L' .5.F. & G. Insurance Corp. after his graduation from T. C. Willi,ims School of Law, and later practiced law in Isle of Wight County until his rl'lin-ment in 1980 1922ffhomas Sanford Dunaway Jr., (R), of Newport News, Va ., died January 9, 1983. Mr. Dunaway was the Business Manager at Christopher Newport College in Newport News. He was a charter member of Warwick Rotary Club and Kappa Sigma Fraternity 1923/Dr. John A. B. Hills man Jr., (R), of Pompano Beach, Fl,1., died in September, 1982. Dr. Hillsman practiced in Winne• peg, Canada, until his retirement in 1969.

1923/Frank J. Manhart, (R), of Richmond died February 26, 1983. Mr. Manhart was the author of several books, including A Historical Skcrch of [as/ Realm, Plain Folk, Do1m M y Way and Our I.nm/. 1le was listed in Who's Who of lllternatiunal Aullmrs and Writers.

1925/Rev. William R. Pankey, (R), of Richmond died March --1, 1983. Mr. Pankey earned his B.D. at Cro,,er Theological Semin arv in Chester, Pa., and his master's degree ;t the University of PennsylvJnia He did postgraduate work at Union Theological Seminary in New York. After ord ination at Abilene Baptist Church in 192-1-, he served churches in Cheskr, Pittsburgh and St. Louis before coming to Richmond as pastor of 1.-Vesthampton Haptist Church in 19--17. In 19.'>0 he began a ministry as a pastoral evangelist for the American and Southern Baptist conventions . Unti l 1967, his work included preaching missions at U.S. Air Force bases. Mr. Pankey served interim pastorates at many Virginia churches from 1967 until 1973. I le wrote four books, including Edse of /'aradi;;c, the story of his years in the ministry 1928/Dr. Edward Graham Cale, (R), of Winter Park, Fla., died March 8, 1983. Dr Cale was an associate professor of economics at the Universitv of Richmond from 1938-19--11. He earned a Ph.D. from U.Va. He t,1Ught at Tulane University and the University of Oregon before joi11i11g the econo m ics facu lty at UR the same years as Dr. George M. Mod lin, now Chancellor of the Un iversity. The two re• mained wa rm friends until Dr. Cale's death. From 1941 until his retiremPnl in

1966, Dr. Ca le servt"d dS an ewnomb t with the U.S. State Dl·p,ntrnent, ~pcci,!lizing in commodity affairs. He w<ls chair· man of the lnteram.,,rican Coffel' !.\oard for many years. He and his wife, the former Eli1,abcth Sherman of Richmond, had lived in Winter Park siml' his retireml'nt.

1931/Napoleon Palmieri Jr. , (R) of Richmond died February 26, !983. Mr. Palmieri was retired from Waddell & Reed, Inc .. as manager.

1931/Dr. Carroll B. Robertso n, (R), of Jackson, N.C., died JanuMy --1, 1983 1933/MauTice S. Dean, (R}, of I lanover, Va., died March 5, 1983. Mr. lx,an was a former clerk of the 4th U.S. Circuit Cou rt of Appeals, and workl'd dS <l police reporter for The Kichmo11d Times -Dis1mtc/1 for 21 years I le was known ;:,ffectionately as "Diz," and earned the respect of hi~ colleagues for his prodigious memory and his ability to ferret out stories 1934/James N. Johnson , (ll), of Kailua, Hawa ii, died January 14, 1983. Mr. Johnson spent 35 years liv ing and working in for eign countries. Thirty of those years were with Caltex Petrokum Corporation. l k· retired in 1976.

1936/Leon F. King, ([{), of New Orleans, La., died August 28, 1982 1937/Lester R. Stuart, (R), o f I laddonfield, NJ , died August 25, 1982 1938/Spruell P. James Jr., (R) of Richmond d ied January 26, 1980 1948/Ernest Lynn Jr., {R), of Blackstone, Va., died July 28, 1982 . •Vlr. Lynn was part owne r with his father of Lynn Pont iac, ,md remained with the dealership until it was sold and became Hall'y Pontiac in thl' '60's. Hl' moved to Blackstone, where he bought the Wedgewood Motor Lodge He recently sold the Lodge and was planning to move back to Richmond 1950/A. Dale Huke Jr., (B), of Richmond died March 19, 1983 . Mr. Huke w<1s as· sistant vice president in charge of special services with the Life Insurance Company of Virginia .

1951/Kenneth E. Motto, (BJ, of Richmond died /\-larch 4, 1983.

1963/Thomas R. Clarke, (R), of l\l'w York City, died April 8, 1983. He was executive vice president of the nonprofit .\1orning· side House l\' ursing Home Co. and of Aging in America, a nonprofit research and service organization for professionals in gerontology. He was formerly an assistant ad m inistrator for Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, assistant director of the American University Hospital in Beiru t, Lebanon, and associate director of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in Lajolla, Calif.

1964/J ames G. Rose Jr., (U), of Richmond died Januarv 6, 1983. Mr. Rose w,1s for· mer ch ief of the Bon Air Volunteer Fire Dept., and president of the Chestl'ffil'ld Fire Association. He was emp!oyl'd by thl' Chesapeake and Potomac Telephonl' Co for 35 years.

Mr. William H. Br,rnch of Richmond, an Associate of the Un iversity, died March ii, 1983. Mr. Br.inch was past president of the Virginia Association of lnsur,mce Agents, and an area insurance agl'nt for more than 50 years . He merged his agency with Tabb, Bro(kenbrough & Ragland i11 1977 and worked 1Nith that agency as a consu ltan t until his retirement in 1981

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CL/lSSNOTES CONT. James L. Camp Jr. of Franklin, Va., an Associate of the Universi ty, died February 27, 1983. Mr. Camp was th e retired president and chairman of the board of Cnion Cam p Co rp I le had an early ambition to have a musical career, but later decided to enter business. I le was active in many charitable and educational organizations

New York Hospital for Special Surgery last Oct. 20 has so far been a complete success

Rosa Sanders Thomas and I had lunch and saw a matinee at the Virginia Museum recently.

Gladys Lumsden McCutch<'on reports two exciting events recently. first, the wedding of her grandson which she attended in Tuls.i, Okla., a most impres-

Ethney Selden Headlee and Tom en· joy th eir family of children and g randchi ldren Camilla Wimbish Lacy wrote the good news of her return home from a hospital stay following a stroke.

siV(' type of ceremony, after which she toured the Oral Kobcrts University. Se.::-

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'21 Frances Vaughan Fuslie 6004 lnd1So Rwd R1chmow/, Va. 23230 Leonora Dorsey Kilby is enjoyini,; a period of rem ission back in her cottage in Cul· peper and is grat eful for all the fri,mds and relatives w ho have given her atlen· lion and prayers during her illness. We know she also deserves a medal for her faithful period as secretary of o ur cfass Mary Hart Willis Winfrey teaches a Sunday School class for children in her home. She enjoys the companionship of a sister and a former pupil as we!! as her pet dog Elizabeth Elsea has a relaxed life while s he recovers from a broken wrist.

Mary Blackwell Hudnall's rea ction to a broke n hip reads like a human hardware store with nails, screws, plates. Her acceptance of the resultant hand icap finds her able, self-sustaining an d 'with it ' May Thompson Evans writes that her totally replaced knee pe rformed at th e

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ond was a recent visit from her daug hter Eileen and her children Mary Dudley Cappleman graduated from her wheelchair to ii cane and her activities have increased accordingly. She will now be able tu keep her tluwcr shelf

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Theresa Pollak exhibited at the Women's Resource Center on campus where she donated an original for their auction on April 9. Another piece of her work is being exhibited at the Jewish Community Center in their "Art and the Ga rden" show.

Virginia E. Lane's m ile-a-day walk is extended now that spring has come . She spent Easter with her nephew and his wife at Falls Church . She sings in the choir of her Bible Study class, and still has ent hu siasm for an evening ga m e of Rook.

I want to exp ress an added incentive to getting indi vidual class notes in the magazi ne. Recent ly I received an exciting note from a young man once a playmate of my sons and later a graduate of UR whom I had not seen for 25 years. His work takes him to far-off places and his headq ua rters are in Florida, but he invited me down for "the grand tour'- all of this because he saw my note in our class

'23 Agnes Butterworth Palmer maintains her apartment in Washington, D. C. and so docs Mildred Pulliam Stone, hers in Roa noke Mildred Campbell Broome visited her daughter, Judy, in Bowling Green, Va. this Easter Elizabeth Crafton lives at Lakewood Manor, Elizabeth Hill Schenk, Ruth Pow· ell Tyree and John are at Imperial l'b;r.a Elise Davis Via, widowed and now retired after a successful career o f teaching and writing, has taken up painting and sketching. She taught in Charlot te sville and wrote histories for children, including a charming one on "Mr. Jefferson."' Her legal name is Betty Davis Via, but she will alwa ys be ""Liza" lo us Virginia Kent Loving lives on the home farm in Fluvanna County, and is ac· live in community life.

We extend our deepest sympathy to Rennie l'arks Rue who lost her husband th is year Kathleen Prentiss Perrin and Vic li ve al home, while thei r son, Robert and his wife are in Flor ida

Janie Wood and I had a telephone visi t, reminiscing our time at college. She taught for many years in Petersburg as did Lelia Doane, whose memory we cherish. Janie lives at Westminster-Canterbury, and so do Olivia Hardy Blackwell and Evelyn Sanford Wams ley We sadly nok !ht· loss of Jane Eu· bank Ream s and Bessie Gil Sau nders from our number and offer condolences to their families Ellen Douglas Olive r's s udden death shocked and saddened us all. Sht' had just been g iven public recognition for her devoted service to the church the Sunday on which she died My best Easter gift wa s a visit from a cousin who is the daughter of Constance Gay Mo re nu s, class of '15

'25 812 Martha Lipscomb Wal s h ,m1oyed a trip to Europe last summer Billie (Alpha) Gordon Atwill continues to enioy her life in the retirement community in New Jersey. She ha s some physical ailments but she "gets around •· For loni,; distances in the compkx she uses her very efficien t c;1rt which sht' calls her '"chariot" Evelyn Davidson Ward continues her busy life at Bladensfield in Warsaw, Va Billy (Wilma) Spangler Rogers is sec· retary and treasurer of her group in Lone Mountain Mobile Ranch (Nevada). She cont inu es to volunteer-cataloging records at her loca l public radio station. Billy's brother, Sheld en, died last year in Phoenix, Arizona. Our sympathy goes to Billy Estelle Myers Thornhill continues to live in Beckley, W. Va. near her son and his familv. She was unable to take her usual winter trip to Florida; however, she is thinking of other trips. She hesitates to go whe re much walking is required. Li ke lots of us she has arthritis Bean (Elizabeth) Abernathy was in northern Virginia during the Christmas season. She visited her niece and family. I cnioy ed a visit with he r and was gla d lo sec her activ e and in good sp irits I was at We~thamp ton in the fall, as your R'prcsentative for the annual fund drive. I was impressed by the way the dean, faculty and students express the values and standards dear to our hearts, as they move forw;irJ with new dcvelopmt'n ts in women's education

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Virginia Perki ns Yeaman is recovering nicely now from her siege with do uble pneumonia this winter Trudi Ryland Harlan and Howard have been in Florida for four months plaving golf. Louise Hardawa y Boswell and Mary Ric hardson Butterworth have also had nice visits to Florida this winter 1 have also seen or heMd from Elizabeth Barton, Jimmie Stu essy Mattox and Mary Stevens Jones. They are well, but had no spn:ial news to report Congratulations to Anne Simpson Fulcher, '29's s.cholarship recipient for two yea r~, who has received early acCt'ptance at MCV for the fall of '831 Through your generous support of our Scholarship Fund, it has now reached S21,300 Keep it grow ing!

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'27 [d11/1De1Vitt Pre,;/,yteri,m 1/omeSC CMR47 Sw1wie,i,ille. SC. 2948) Virginia M cDani el Cone had a longer than usual visit with her daughter, M.utha Yeatts in Richmond . Mac stayed with Martha following surgery. She is getting along fine now and is back in her mountain-top home in Mill Spring, N.C. Georgia Mae C rews will spend part of August in Nova Scotia El eanor Waters Ramsay had minor surgery in March . She is doing nicely at this point l was incarcerated in our infirmary hereat Presbyterian l lome most of January and some of February. because of ,1 fractured vertebra plus complications. No

During a recent period of recuperation from an operation Lucille Cla y Berard did the Westhampton Seal (just like our ring) in counted cross-sti tch. Lucille plans to spend this November in California. Her daughter is recovering from an operation of last year and she will not only be with her and the grandchildren bu t will also visit with her so n, a Los Angeles lawyer.

fun. but J"m up and doing again now, thank goodness Please let me have news of others of myclassmatesof\927

'29 Hdn1C.Moo11 117 To11l>rid:,:,· Rd Ric/m1011d, Va. 23221 Ruth Haverty is fine now and is planning to build a small house on her sister llclen's property in Smithfield Ann ie l! oyd Mo recock isawailing.1 cataract operation AH of you in "29 arc eagerly awaiting thearriva l of Elii:abethHale fromMalaysia. At long last she is return ing to the U.S.A. I hope to have mo re news of he r for our next magazine

Gt'Ttrm/c B. D11wn 14 M11l1~•m Ave. Rich111011d, Va. 23221 13y the lime you read this we the class of '33 will be membe rs of the Boatwright Society, but in case you missed this news. read on!

Margaret Slaughter Robert son, with husband, travels. The trips last year were to Kenya and the North Cape uf Norway.

Vi rginia Napier wit h husband, Alex, had 12 delightful days at a college in Sus· sex, England and then a visit to Scotland in search of roots (A lex's).

Marjorie Canada O' Riordan's twins are living in the Baltimore area. J·fappy to be near after twenty years apart. Herother two children arc still in the Chicago JaneMe rchant andJackwerein Atlanta for Than ksgiving visiting his d.mgh ter .md her family.

Ann Welsh and Goddy had a spring holiday in Philadelphia with son, Bill, and his fa mily who live in Akron, Ohio Florence Siebert reti red in 1973.1s an elementary school principal in the Norfolk Public School system . In July of I.1s t year she had majo r su rgery and now makes her home in a local nursing home Ou r heartfcltsympathyisextcndcd to Etta and her children for the dea th of he r mot he r in Marc h Keep in touch!

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Sheppard who lost her husband in March However, Peggy had happier news-a new grandson, born to her son Pete, and his wife, in December I was in Rome for two weeks. Please send me your news during the summer

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'35 Gladys Smith Tatum 336 Lex1ngto11 Rd Richmo11d, Va. 23226 Minnie Smith was the first member of our class tu respond to the 1983 Alumnae Fund appeal Lucille Drake retired from her posi-

tion at the Federal Reserve Bank, but soon accepted a part-time position with the Friendship Force Harriet ~Valton received a long-time dream when she traveled tu the Galapa¡

gos Islands Hazel Weaver Fobes is taking a class in a college near her home in \.\'ebster, l\' .C. so that she can maintain her fluency in French Billy Rowlett Perkins sold her home in Richmond and moved to the Westminster-Canterbury! louse in Virginia Beach.

She comes to Richmond each month to fu lfi ll her responsibility as program chairman of the \Vomcn of St. Mark's Episcopal Church Mary Bruce Harper Heisler spent part of the winter in Florida, and then. ,he went to Texas to sec her new grandchild.

A number of the members of our class attended a mini reunion of the 1931 John Marshall High School graduating class \-lost of our col lege class who live in Richmond, along w ith our sponsor. Miss Jean Wright, had lunch ;it the Engineers' Club; arrangemen ts were made by Betsy Marston Sadler, whose husband is a member

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Charlotte Beale took a leave of absence from a position as a guidance counselor in the Portsmouth School Svstem before her mother's death in March, 1973, and did not return to the active position. Her interests now are in her church, the local AAUW and her home Christine Duling Sponsler and Orville now have six grandchild ren w it h the addition of the most recent one, Christopher Allen Sponsler, fourth chi ld of their son, Bill and his wife Allyson. Bill works in computer programming for McGrawEdison in Portville, N. Y. Their daughter Kristin (W.C. "63) has 12-year-old Alison and JO-year-old Blake, to whom Christine enjoys teaching piano Susan, their youngest, is now on the faculty of New York College of Pennsylvania. where she is head athletic trainer and instructor of physical education. Susan was the winner recently of an Outstanding Young Woman award for 1982 for her personal and professiona l accomplishments In April, 1982, Bess Pal \Valford and Liz Angle ('37) atknded an Elderhostel in England After Tommie Babcock Mooney's husband died in 1981, she remarried and is now Tommie Babcock Anderson and still living in Clearwater, Fla. Ruth Houser Kinson's daughter Jean was married to Richard Allen Martin on Feb. 12, 1983, and is now living in College Park, Ga. \Vithin a vear or so Ru th has acquired two new so~s-in-law We wish to extend our sympathy to Jessie McElroy Junkin on the death of her father, the Reverend I. Stuart ;\,kElroy, on January 28, 1983. Rev. McElroy was a former district secretary of the American Bible Society Our son, Don, a former captain in the Army Dental Corps, has recently opened his office for the private practice of den tistry here in his hometown of Waynesboro

'41 Helen Dodd Driscoll 5106 Nev. 1 Ken/ Rd R1dmwml, Va. 23225 Virginia Garrett Wimmer joined Betsy Woodson Weaver, Elsie Satterwhite Elmore and me in December for lunch in my home. Such reminiscing! "Tinsey's" no longer in a cast or on crutches. \Ve two enjoyed W. C. in la te .'vlnrch at th e Richmond Alumnae Club luncheon

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Marion Yancey Petroff ilnd Chris have had two recent trips abroad. The first, to England. reunill'd Chris with his brother and family whom he hadn't seen in 21 years! They went on to tour Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Last fall they had a delightful four weeks in Greece. They spent a night each way with Virginia Lee Ball Clover in Gloucester Point.

Virginia Lee sent news g leaned from Christmas cards: Betty Keesee Rhodes wrote that her daughter, Margie. "is here with us .. she has multiple sclerosisour lives are much concerned with her care .. I continue in the Department of Socia! Services . . Lee is doing well after surgery in '82 . . William is with the Department of Agriculture in Harrisonburg."

From Margaret Purcell Spindler: "was in Houston for a week flew on to Tucson to visit my sister, .'vlartha and her husband for two months .. many interesting side trips .. attended my niece's wedd ing, and drove to Martha and Ralph"s beach home below Porto Penasco, Mexico . in .'vlichigan for two weeks to visit my son and daughter . have attended two fantastic painting workshops in Florida."

Dotty Hewes McGlincy wrote, "We are proud first -time grandparents of twin bovs born in Atlanta, Oct. 30 (#1 son); #2 so~ and wife also live there. Unmarried <laugher is a geologist in Long Island."

Virginia Lee and daugher, Julie, stopped by in Wilmington, Del. for lunch with Dotty and Bill. "In the spring of '82 visited Hawaii for two weeks . stopped in California to visit friends. Julie is in ODU, son, Burnet, is living at home and working in l lampton. Peter is working in New Orleans." Virginia Lee is a docent for the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, reads local news over radio for blind and hard-of-sight, and is involved in

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tutoring non-readers in her county. She visited Kira Nk holsky Curwen in Fielda!e lastfall.

Mary Owen Bass and Kenneth kept grandson, Kevin, during February while Mary Kay and husb,md represented a Hershey, Pa. country dub curing team at a Bonspiel in Utica, N. Y. Son. Ken, with wife, and family lives in Great Falls, Va Mary and Kenneth are involved with interesting volu nteer activities- Delaware Council/International Visitors, Hagley Museum Guild and their church. Ken sponsored a UR alumni/ae affair for the Delaware UR's in March. Ken retired on December 31 from DuPont as Market-Director, Industrial Fibers. Mary is busy with AAUW chairing the National l){'vclopment Committee and on the program in June for the National Convention. For the Wilmington branch, she is publicity/public relations chairman and Bv-Laws Parliamentarian for the Delaw~re Division. She is invited back to Geneva, Switzerland, as a former American \\'omen's Club president for the 25th anniversary in October.

Mary wagers class of "41 will go highest ever in '83 contributions. Hope you helpedl Naomi Lewis Policoff is selling their first California house because Leonard tra'"els 75 miles per day to the Veteran¡ s hospital where he is chief of rehab medicine. They bought a house in Berkeley "Berkeley has everything: 'nuts' left over from the 60's, culture. art, quaint houses- and my daughter and 6-year-old granddaughter .. spend a great deal of time with my etching workshop and showing at the local art centers and galleries. Son Stephen is a free-lance writer in New York and holds drama workshops" Naomi enclosed her art resume. Summing

it up: '" .. origina!ly a painter in oils . printmaker for past decade . graduated from Pa. Academy of the Fine Artspaintings and prints are in private collections in six states . in the permanent collection of the Rensselaer I listorical Society and AT&T Long Lines I leadqua rters, N. J has been deeply involved in three color plate etchings in Juried shows of Marin Society of Artists, as wel l as several other shows . original training in biology and her love of animals. insecb and nature at large play an important rule in all of her prints" Josephine Fennell Pacheco cunlinul'S to leach at George Mason University. One son works for IBM and li\"es in the area. hence Ju can enjoy the grandchildren. The second received his Ph.D. in math this spring and her daughter, married to an Englishman, lives abroa.d where she's working on a Ph.D. in Shakespeare.

From Florida Mary Elizabeth Riley Sublett wrote of her two granddaughters, Kari Lvnn, 7, and her cousin, Kim, born last July. We all extend sympathy to '"Babe" upon the sudden death of her husband, Louis, in February.

Betsy Weaver, Elsie Elmore, Babe and 1 had a chatty afternoon together at my home in mid-April

spring. Her daughter, Anne, is in West Point, Miss. and has three children . Jeanie lives just outside of Boston and has four children. Tom is an engineer with Union Carbide in Oak Ridge. I !is wife is an attorney Dolly Dorsey Garwood is retiring from teaching this Yl"ilr. Dave stays busy with his project of remodeling apartments Dollv's mother has been in Columbus, Ohio for six years and is comfortably situtated in a reti rement center. I fer son, David, has two child ren and lives in Albany, N.Y. Ginny \vorks for a tr,ivel agency and is a free-lance writer. Ruth has earned her MUA degree, lives in Manh,1ttan and works for Banker's Trust Barbara Lewis Talbotl's son, David, a graduate of the U. of Miami, was married last summer to Deirdre Marvel. a graduate of Washington College, Md. They live in Houston. Mollv is a ski enthusiast and has spent the last several winters in St. Anton, Austria . Son Owen has an 8-yearo!d daughter and lives in Annapolis Jo Ward Franks had a very special mini reunion. She came from Casa Grande, Ariz. and saw her Westhampton suitemates Barbara Lewis Talboti, Ann Oakes and Anne Ully Fisher. Jo has !we ~0ys and one girl and is teaching.

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Bet/11 Lnwson Dillard 1403 Friend Ave South Boston, Va. 24592 Jane Wray Bristow McDorman left Richmond just ahead of the 17-inch snowfall

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CLASSNOTES CONT. in February. She travelled in a van with three couples to Florida for six days of su nshine and fellowship. I enjoyed visit ing with Jane Wray when we were both

on campus for a luncheon in November.

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! talked briefly to Ann G lazebrook Tompkins and Langhorne during the Christmas holidays when they were visiting sun Dr. Jim Tompkins and fa mily here Liz Parke r Cone and I low.ird spent Easter at the Homestead and then went to the Far East.

Danville, Va. 24545 Florence Crute Batink moved from Westboro, Mass. to Colorado Springs in Decem ber. Dick is worki ng for Digital Equipment Co. They a rc both great hikers, so are enjoying the beautiful country. Their daughter, Suzanne, is working in Maine, ha ving graduated from the U. of Maine.

Nancy is attending Towson U. in Maryland, and Richard is a sophomore in college in New llampshire Bill and I Joined the ranks of proud g randparents in November with the arrival of Katie and Bill Cathcarl'sbaby"Will" Please write, so I won"! be forced to call you "collect'"!

News has been very scarce since our last letter so please drop me a line and bring me up to date on your activ ities

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Izz y Ammerman Allin and Jay had a three wel'k European varntion.

Mimi Daffron Horrigan and Jack had a trip to Ireland.

Ollie Menefee Stirling and Hank welcomed a new granddaughter, Rebe.:ca A ls ton {mother is Carole) born May '82 Sara Frances Derieux and Sam have first grandchild, Sara Carter born to Justine and her husband. 5. F. and Sam have a new vacation home in Wintergreen Ann Wile y Kell y retired from her job as school libra rian Carol yn Storm Pattie's daughter, Page. had twins Allen Taylor and Laura Anne. Page's husband, Gordon, was unable to be in 1-tunington (due to training at Chaplain School) so Carolyn got to go into the delivery room. Carolyn's son. Allen, who works in Colorado, spent Christmas wi th his mot her.

Martha Edwards Allen and Bobby spent the winter in a condo al St. Petersburg, Fla Anne Hi ggins Borger and Dan are faithful to attend UR footbal! games. Dan is now semi-ret ired MajieWingfieldWebster scntnews of all her family. Mary Kay is a Physical Therapy major at Northwestern . Oldest son Earl is catering director at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. Richard is in Florida a nd youngest, llowa rd, works for Piclinny Arscnal and hves at home. Majie has been a computl'r scien tist for the las t 17years C. L. and I had all our family here for Christmas, including my mother, who still has a private school at home for pre路 schoolers. In February we had an eightday vaca tion at the Acapulco Princess in Me xico. Beth Dec ker Kimball and I met for d inner whi le I was in New Ma rket in January Our class sympathy to Doris Pitman Rainey on the loss of her husband, Oris, in May '82. Doris' son, Oris Jr. is a policeman and lives in Colonial I !eights w ith hi s wi fe. Son, Robert, is a VCU senio r and also a peanut fa rmer

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'51 Elizahe/11 Latimer Kokiko 125! 51111 Ridge Dr Plllsbi,rg/1, Pa . 15241 I regret to begin our class notes with news of the death of Be tty Cath e r Ma cCallum Afte r a long illness, Betty B. passed away on January 19. 1983 at her home in Santa Fe, N.M. I heard from both her brother (Rev. Morris Cather) and her son and through them realized what an illustrious career followed her Westhampton days.

Betty continued to pursue her interest and talent in the theater. She contributed to thefieldbywritinganddire.:tingmany performances . Right to the end, Betty was hailed asa true artist by re.:eiv ing numer ous awards. Present plans call for one of her original works, "Lizzie Borden in the La ter Afternoon," to be produced offBroadway in the summer of '83. We exte nd our sympathy to her family and we acknow ledge with pride that Belly B. was a member of the class of 1951 Betty Luke has gonr into private practice in Andover, Mass. as a licensed clinical social worker. She continues to low living in New England, esprcially Cape Cod in the su m mtcrs, tennis , and traveling.

Betty Rogers has left the lift, of a legal secretary for that of a grain and tobacco farmer. She continues to reside in Dan路 ville, Va Shirley Hall Murphy has two precious granddaughters, both born since our reunion. Proud papa is their son, Steve, w ho is now vice-presid ent of the H ome Shops Company, formerly owned by Shirley's husband, Tom. Their daughter, Paula, is Jiving in Atlanta. Next son, David is a junior at W&M. Last son, Tim, will be off to college in fall of'83. Shirley is active w ith volunteer work at St . Joseph"s Home for the Aged.

Ann Jones Moffatt makes many trips to California to visit her son and family where he is a chief engineer for ARCO. Her daughter is an analytical chemist for the Virginia Sta te Highway Department.

An n co ntinues he r teaching of math a t Ti dewater Community College.

Marygly n Cooper McGraw writes that Wally has returned to priva te practice after many years asa corporate attorney Their da ughter was a May gradua te from Mary Baldwin .

Rosie Varn Ru ggles sent news from H ouston, Texas that her daughter, Clare, isa true career girl asa staff accountant Son, Glenn, is a sophomore at the U. of Texas in Petroleum Engineering. Rosie's husband, John, owns his own company which prospects for oil and gas.

Eleanor Wrig ht Woodward .md her husband, Manning, continue to enjov their travels both in the U.S. and in Europe. ! !er daughter, Eleanor Susan, is a first-year law student at the UR. I !er other daughter, Rosemary, spent a semester at the U. of London Paula Aberneth y Kelton is J boastful grandmother of little Sara Kelton. PJula keeps in touch with Betty Munsey Spatz who is living in the Wash ington, D.C. area Mary Booth Davis"s sun, John D., had successful spinal surgery last sum路 mer. After his recoverv, Mary Booth and Jim had a delightful trip to Eni;land. returning home on the Q E2.

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Janet Francis Midgett is the Executive Officer of the Local Home Builders Association which involves handling membership, dues, fundraisers, program, etc. as well as much travel. Her husband, Bob, is in business for himself selling new and used office equipment. Her oldest daughter, Lisa, teaches fi rst grade in Greensboro; daughter, Paige, is a hair stylist in High Point; daughter, Gina, was married last summer to Jim Kinard, who is working on his Masters and Doctorate at UNCGreensboro whi le she works as a medical secretary; son, Rob, attends Appa lachian U. One of those attend ing Gina's wedd ing was Marilyn Bowlin Go rd y, who lives in Denton, Md. Her husband, l lugh, has a serious kidney condition and could not attend with her. Daughter, Karen. isa graduate of Westhampton and teaches special education classes in music in the Richmond area; daughtrr, Laurif.', also graduated from Westhampton and works in Maryland Louise Hudgins McNally isorganist for Laurel Presbyterian church in Laurel, Md. and leaches piano and organ; son, Ronald, received a master's degree last year from the U. of Maryland; son, Michael, is now a CPA; son, Steven, is still athomeandquitea musician.

Carolyn Billingsley Doughert y sells office furniture and ~upplies fora wholesaler in Annandale. Her daughter, Robin, received a master's degree in creative writing last year, participated in an archeological dig in Tours, France and travelled to England and Poland; daughter, Lynn, graduated from Barnard: and daughter, Pat. isa student at Annandale High School Segar White Gu y's daughter, Judi, has entered tht> business world with a position with a computer graphics company in Philadelphia. Segar and Will have m.1de gardening a hobby by doing their own and visiting others while travelling. Prior to her move to Houston, Rosa Ann Thomas Moore visited with Segar and Wi!Jsevt>raltimes.

Gerrie Kantner Jones' and llervey's daughter, Ann, was married in Decatur, Ga. in March.

JoFriedaHullMitchell isnolongera school librarian but has gone to work with A.H. Robins.

JunePairCarler iswiththeNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics in a writing and editing capacity. lier daughter, Rebecca, teaches elementary school art in Frederick County, Maryland. Our det>pest sympathy goes to June whose daughter, Denise, was killed ;nan au to accident last fall while attending college in Arizona.

Our sympathy also to Gladys Tatarsky whose father passed away in November

spent 52 days traveling through the United States and Canada in 1982 summer The children ages 11 to 22 include Robert a graduate of Dickenson College; Edward, a junior at VP!; Ellen, a junior in high school and Kenneth, a sixth grader. Her mother was married in August 1982 and the family returned home in time for MyratohavethereceptionintheWormald home Rememberthatour30threunionwill roll around in two years. Please don't wait that long to sharr your news

'57 Lovey/a11eLo1i:,;Wr1/ker 300Beechw(!od Richmond, Va. 23229 Let's continue with our update of our classmates who attended our reunion or sent news for the rt>union last spring.

Joyce Binner Rickard and David live in Greensboro, N.C. where he is vice president of a hosiery manufacturing firm and she works for a CPA firm. They have two sons, one of whom attends Elon College in North Carolina Susie Stutts Hic ks and Dave live in Little Rock, Ark., where he runs a uniform and linen supply company Susie has stayed busy raising six children . Pam, who has Downs Syndrome, graduated from public high school and works for the Easter Seal workshop. She has competed several timt>s in the National Special Olympics swimming. David is at the Na-

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val Academy; Susan, at Duke; Cathy at Westhampton; Geoffrey and Elizabeth are still at home Ann Hun ter Harris married Dr. Bob Filer, whom many of you migh t remem ber as a psychology professor at UR. They live on Lakt>wood Drive in Richmond.

Ann's girls attend Collegiate Carol Dickerson Kauffman lives in Indiana, Pa. where she sells rea l estate for Century 21 as well as playing a !ot of tennis and riding horseback. Her children are Peg, 23, and Tom, 17.

Carmen Austin Williams and Herm live in Schene<:tady, N. Y. Carmen received her master's degree from State University of New York in 1975. She works at Union College as a curriculum specialist and I lerm works in college administration. Their son Chat graduated from Georgia Southern and daughter Melanie is at W&M

Janet Butler Barker and Bob live in Colorado Springs. Colo. They settled there when he retired at the end of 30 years in the military. France and Belgium were among the places they lived in the service. Now Bob is a realtorand Janet is pursuing a curriculum in environmental biology at U. of Colorado while still enjoying tenn is, skiing, French conversation and classical ballet class. Their daugh ter Elizabeth is an elementary teacher in Colorado and son Jim attends U. of Colorado Margaret Logan Ball is living in Boston, Mass. where she is a full~time author.

Her daughter, Tracey, lives in Dallas and her son is in St. Paul in chemistry graduate school. Margaret said tha t l'at Dodge Ridgeway is living in Washington, D. C. with ht>r husband, James, who is a political writer.

Peggy Graves Butterworth and Dick live in Dinwiddie, Va. where he is a dentist and she teaches at Dinwiddie High School. They have two child ren who attend Madison College and two at home Nancy Bertsch Ratchford and Bil! live in Annapolis, Md. Bill is a member of the Maryland legislature. Tht>yhavetwochildren Kitty Alford Connor and Ga!t> Jive in Lutherville,Md. She works for the Baltimore City Ht>alth Department and helps care for her father who is in a retirement home near their house. Galt> is with Bethlehem Steel and travels to Japan a good bit in his job. Kitty met him in Hawa ii in July 1982 to celebrate their 25th anniversa ry. Tht>ir children are F. G . and Caryle.

Carolyn Naumann Robertson and Jim have liwdinFairfield,Conn. forllyears where he is with G. E. Their son, Craig, who is at W&M, took Carolyn camping in the Shenandoah National Park. Son Scott, 21, pu rsues sky diving asa hobby. Their family is rounded out with a daughter in high school.

Brandy McDaniel lives in Durham, N.C. where she is the director of Pediatric Social Work for Du ke llospitaL Brandy has started a summer camp for children with chronic illnesses Meg Kidd Tenney and Lin live in Hudson,Ohiowherel.inisachemist with B. F. Goodrich. Their oldest, Beth, graduated from Madison in 1982. Blair is a National Meri t Finalist and Echols Scholar at UVa. Wood and Brook remain at home

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'66 BSU officers: left to right, L. Griffith, Lin's father, John B. Tenney, is a recognized artist and if you are in the Tidewater, Va. area you might look for his works insomeofthegallcries Grace Bloxsom Raveling and Philip are in Houston, Texas where he is an explorations manager for Mobile Oil. Other places they haw lived include Libya. Norway and England. Their children include a son, 21 and a daughter, 20.

Aimee Lee Raveling Cheek and Pettie live in San Diego, Cal., where he is a history professor at San Diego State University. He has co-authored a three-volume work on blacks in the Civil War Their daughters attend Swarthmore and Harvard. The family lived in France for a while on an academic exchange program.

Margaret Foster is currently with the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. in research. In her career as a physicist and bio-physicist she has lived and worked in Wisconsin, California, New York and abroad in England and Swit..:erland Nancy Day Anderson, who has now completed 25 years of teaching, has received her Ph.D. from UVa Anne Lee Hines Reamy is not far behind Nancy. She has been teaching 20 years, has a master"sdegrec and is head of the English department in the middle school near where she and Charlie live in Boydton, Va. Their daughter, Martha, has successfully recovered from anorexia nervosa and attends Mary Washington where heroldersisterisastudent Jackie Ra ndlette Tucker and Walter live in Richmond. She teaches in the ESL program which helps Richmond's many refugees Kitty Cla rk Ke rsey and Wilber live in Portsmouth, Va. where Kitty has been teaching at ODU for 12 years. She is now thegraduatcprogramdirectorforearly childhood education there. She received

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J. Jamison, C. Sublette, D. Anderson her Ph.D. in 1973. She publishes a weekly column entitled, "Raising Children and Parents, Too.'" At the time of our reunion. she had just written her 200th column . ln addition to this full schedule, Kitty did a 13-week series for cable TV talking about family issues with children. Kitty also serves as a minister's wife and a fulltime mother

'59 An11eNorrisMyersJolmso11 8206 Ovcrbury Rd Richmond, Va. 23227 Elizabeth Ramos Dunkum received UR's 1982 Volunteer of the Year Award for outstanding service to the University.

Grace lane Mullinax, member of the RichmondChapteroftheorganization Many Against Drunk Driving (M.A.O.O.), spoke to the General Laws Committee of theVirginiaGenera!Assemblyand testified for Senator Canada's Victim Impact bill, pleading for legislation that will effectively reduce drunken dtiving. Grace isa research assistant at MCV, working on arthritis research. lier husband isa rheumatologist and internist at MCV. They have twochildrcn,lvan, 14,andMarie, 12 Ellen Matlick Kline hasser"edon the Board of Education of Livingston.

N.J., and was president of the Board this past year. I !er husband. Peter, JUSt completed a two-year term as president of their congregation. Their son, Steve, 14, swims on the Y swim tl.'am and plays in a jazz group at school. Their daught...r, Amy, attends Dickinson ColJ,..ge in Carlisle, Pa., where she has been Sl.'lected as a resident advisor Cary Hancock Gilmer sends this report on the activities of her children. Cary Lee is a student at Bryan College, major-

ing in elementary education. L:ist summer she went to Brazil with Nl.'hemiah Missions, a team of young people from the GraceUrethrendenomination, for the purpose of building a chapd and bernming familiar with mission work. Melanie also tra\'eled with a team of young people to Washington and Oregon, helping children in "arious ways. Greg has just completed elementary school.

Cynthia Patteson Douglas's husband, Uobby, is a p.1stor of ! lixson First Baptist Church in Hixson, Tenn. Their children are Doug, 16; Susan, 14; and Caleb, 8 Margaret Rutherford Compton operates a Christian tape ministry from her home. She and Delano ha\'e two children, Louise and Leslie Ei leen Cordle Harris teaches sophomore English at Blul.'Stune High School in Mecklinburg County, Va. Husband, Ed, is a computer programmeranalyst. Their children, Mary Kyle and Chuck, are in the Gifted and Talented program at Bluestonc Midd le School Peggy Dulin Crews and family and Barbara Dulin Polis and family spent Christmas together in Aspen, Colo.

Sue Ri ley Lambiolle's oldest son, Ken, attends UVa. on a basketball scholarship. Even though he was a first year player last season, he played in many games on UVa.'s nationally ranked basketball team Anne Norris Myers Johnson has completed her law reading program, passed the Virginia Bar Exam, and is now a partner in the law firm of Robert N. & Anne M.)ohnson,lnc

'63 Marcia McM111/111 Ca11/rell, Actin:,: 51:cretary 10409MelissaMil/Rd Richmond, Va. 23235 A great time was had by all al our 20th class reunion in May . We missl.'d those of you who couldn't join us. Louk for details in our next class notes. ln November, Kay Koontz Gillette presented a program of Classical Music in the home of Judy Barlow Bolling tua literary class in Smithfield. Judy and L:iVerne Watson Edwards '58 arc members of the class JeanMorrisFosterjoinedthemasa guest for the afternoon

'65 C11nth1a She/lwrse 4216 Kingcrcst Parkway Ric/m1011d, Va. 23227 BethAskew isastockbrokerwithWheat, First Securities in Vienna, Va. She received her broker's license in June 1981, after fifteen years as a librarian. She mainta ins her library ties by conducting investment seminars in local branches, and speaks regularly tu area groups and clubs Last semester she supervisl'<I a Marv-

mount College senior whu was cluing a 20-huur per wt'{>k practicum I'm keeping busy taking computer courses. I hope everyone has a news-filled summer!

'71 C/1eryl Bfonkn1.slii11fc11ki11s 1731 W111dingridge Dr Riclmumd, Va. 2.3213 Katliy Neal Wl1ite 915 W. 3rd St Ro,mok,:Ra11id,; , N. C. 27870

Mary Lee Watson Brn:ell and Jim arc living in Sequin, Texas, where she is teaching part-time and co..ching her daughter's socct'r team' Meg Gilman and LucySmithsp.:.•nta week on Cape Cod last ~ummer. Meg continues to lt'ach high ~houl biology and anatomy.

Marcia McCoy Wyatt and Richard have moved tu Midland, Texas, where Richard works fur a bank. Marciais"playingat huu.',('wift,forachange." Marcia and Richard have twuchildren !'lease send some news our wav so that we can pass it on to you. '

'73 Spnns Cra ft, Kir/111 7519 /J<.1mlrr Rd R,c/wwmf, Va. 23229

Kath y George Canning works for Bank uf Virginia in the Master Card Division Pam Minter Comfort is teaching ~houl again. She and Steve have one son.

Laura Denn y is a pharmacist in Winchester Anne Ferrell Draper and Steve .1re stillinMartinwillewheretheyown.1 clothing store. Thev have.1 daughter, Kate Nancy Bendall Emerson is "ith the Virginia Travel Service. Ben is in T. C. Williams law School Agnes Mobley Fuller has joined an opera company in Norfolk, She also tcachcs private ,·oict• lessons.

Gayle Goodson Butler works for Meredith Corporation in Des Moines.

Iowa as a public relations representative fortherealestateservin• S..m and J are building a new house fairly close tu where we live now. After June 27, our new address will be %15 Hitchin Drive, Richmond, Va. 23233.

'75 Ci11t/11Crea,y 1544-H 11,mey Grm>t' Dr Riclm1011d, Va. 23229 lyric sopranos Carolyn Hall Blackburn and Mary Susan Ladd . WC76. were featured in a Music at Noon concert in

March at Richmond"s Second Presbvterian Church. Carolyn is an elementary s.chuol music teacher in Henrico Countv and is organist at Lakeside United Methodist Church Betty Ann Baptist Walsh and Dick, who Jive in Martinsville, welcomed a daughter, Carrie Jean, in December. C.1rrie has two older sisters, Julie and Amv, and a brother, Nelson , Nancy Carter McGough and Michael are adjusting to their move from Whitewell, Tenn., population 1,500, to the metropolis of New Orleans. Michael is taking classes to enter the Doctor of Theology program and Nancy is working at New Orleans Seminary. /\1icah, who's 4, goes to the preschool on campus. Nancy alsodOt.'s freelance writing for magazines Ginger Davis McGraw and Mike, LIS 78, and their4-ycar-old triplets, Michele, Michael and Marvl!eth,liwinCroftun, Md . MikeisasalesmanforGt•nt'ra!ElectricSupply Cu. in Baltimore Sharon Enscore Gromling works for the city of Winchester, where Tum is a dentist. Carolyn Luttrell works in Washington, D.C. Meg Morris Harrison and Ronnie are renovating an 1858 Georgia house on Church Hill. Robbie is a service represen ta tive for Eastman Kodak and Meg resigned frum teaching tu take care uf Melissa, who's nearly two.

DianeFraser worksinaffirmativeactiun foraSanfranciscob.mk; Rachel Renfro works for IBM in Manassas and Mary Nell Blanton is living in Amelia and

teaching math at Midlothian I !igh School Chris Murphy Morrow and Pete had a daughter, Victoria, nicknamed Tory, in September. Pete is a doctor Becky Major Newman and R. ll. arc living in Richmond with their 2-ycar-old daughter, Betsy. Becky is volunteering at the Clothes Rack through the Junior league and enioys aerobic dance class. R B. is a financial planner. and is a pilot with the Virginia Air GuMd Fran Henderso n Krause lives in Roanoke. Her husband, Charlie. isa music dire..:tor at First Baptist Church. They have two sons. Will and Rubert.

'77 Shannon O,ter Rollins 33312 W. Lauca,ter Ai~, WaHne,Pa.19087 Jane C. Chodoba SBA 77, of Midlothian, Va .. is a commercial s.1les and le.1sing agent with Morton G. Thalhimer, Jnc. She hasbeenwiththefirmfornearlytwo years.

Elizabeth Bigler Yates was married in 1978. She and her husband arc living in \Vinston-Salcm whercsheisan,1etuarial analyst with Book and Co Ci nd yruryearMcConnell, Dianna Baumann Barron and Paula New ton Mitchellinfurmmetheyareallbusyat humewithnewbabies Please send news!

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Books by Alumni/ae?

Mo, are living in Richmond and work ing at C & P Telephone. At their wedding ~t L'R's chapel, Barbara Henke SUA '79. Ann Copeland SBA '79, Karen Giovacchini SBA '79, Jean Della-Donna . Toni Prencipe and Shearn Fahed were bridesmaids.

Mo is a graduate of VMI

Births

'79 LesJii,McUlin 7396 S. W. 128 St Miami, Fla . 33156

Lesl ie McLain is an opcrilhons analyst in the supply and distribution department at Texaco Latin America/West Africa. Her responsibilities include crude oils. lubricating oi ls, and clean uib . The job has her traveling tu Curacao. Nethnl,md Antilles. Las Minas, Panama and \Vhite Plai ns, :'\J.Y. Barbara Bucher Du Val and husband, Jim, are living in Richmond in a new home. Barbara is teaching at Swift Creek Middle School i11 Chesterfield County.

Sheryl Wagstaff, Pam Collins SBA '79, Ann Copeland SBA '79. and Shearn Fahed Teconchuk WC '80 were in Jim and Barbara's wedding in July of 1982 Judi Alznaucr received her master's degree and is living in Richmond . She traveled to Los Angeles to visit Lisa Tremper.

Ann Martin and husband, rlJrron, have a little girl. Sarah UrJmblettl' MJrtin They are living in Tidewater, VJ. Barron recently started hb own Marine l11sura11ce Agency Jeannette Given b getting hL'r master's degree in C!inirnl Psychulugy from the U. of Mississippi El izabeth Alley is a marketing representative for Royal Globe in Greensboro, N.C. Edith Bassett is in her second year of the special studies graduate prugrnm at UVa .

Lynn Korink Hall is working a t I.R.I.S. System Dt>velopment Corporation as a speci,11 assistant to the vice president of Finance Jnd Administration.

Margaret Brown is a technical publications analyst with Newport News Shipbuilding, a Tennoco Company. She received her MB/\ from VCU in the spring o f 1981 Lisa Tremper took time out from working at U. of Sou th ern Cahfornia"s Art Gallery to travel to New York City and visi t with Anne Secler. Lisa has received her master's in art history Bretta Tulbert Slagle and hus band,

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1969/Mr. and Mrs. A. Robert Lowry (Nancy Jo Srb), a daughter, Katherine Hyland, M,1rch 16, 1983.

1972'Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. I laugh Jr (Barbara Crews), a son, William Charles, May 9, 1982.

1976.IDr. and Mrs. J. Michael Ponder (Ruth Alley Hurley), a daughter, Megan Rebecca, Oct. 25, 1982.

1977/Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. McConneH (Cindy Puryear) , a son, Robert, Aug. 25, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. James Barron (Dianna Baumann) , a daughter, Elizabeth Suzanne, Dt>c. 27, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Mitchell (Paula Newton), a daughter, Lindsay Nicole, Feb. 22, 1983 1979/Mr. and Mrs. Barron Martin (An n Johnston) , a daughter, Sarah Bramblette, Aug. 19, 1982.

Marriages 1973/Victoria Young and Darles A. Dye, Jan. 21, 1983 1976/He len Kay Ellsworth and James Andrew Garamone, Apr. 9, 1983.

1977/l'amela Vogt and Stephen Medford, Dec. 18, 1982

Katherine Wellhouse and Patrick White, Feb. 26, 1983 1979/Bretta Tulbert and Morris (Mo) Slagle, Feb. 13, 1982 Barbara Bucher and Jim DuVal. July 31. 1982 1980/Cec ie Conrad and Robert W Anderson. Jan. 15, 1983 1981/Kimberly J. Carpenter and Patrick U Shelton, Dec. 11, 1982

Deaths WCR/Anne Chesterman Woodfin Jeffri es (Mrs. James W.), of Lynchburg, Va . April 20, 1983.

1917/Florence Boston Decker (Mrs. Hen ry). of Richmond, Va., March 29, 1983 Mrs. Decker was a missionary to China, President Westhampton College Alumnae Assol"iation. Universitv of Richmond Board of Trustees and' community leader 1931/Louise St uessy of East Flat Rock, N.C, April 16, 1983 1943/Priscilla Poteat Humbe rt (Mrs. Richard E.), of Richmond. Va ., May !, 1983.

She was a teacher, Chinese enthusiast, active community leader and facu lty wife 1944/Ellen Mercer Clark Maxwell (Mrs Keith L.), of Keysville, Va .. April 28, 1983 1951/Betty Cather MacCallum of Oilkland, Cal., January 19, 1983. She was a dbtinguished playwright.

WC Dean of Students/Dr. Martha B. Lu cas Pate, May 16, 1983. Dr. Pale was dean of students and associate professor of philosophy and religion at Westhampton College 1941-44. She later served as presid ent of Sweet Briar College and associate dean of Radcliffe College. In 1975 she received the International Women's Year Aw<1rd

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